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Raumfahrt - ‘Space Aggressors’ Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict

23.05.2017

Elite military units are specializing in mock space warfare, as Russia and China develop anti-satellite weaponry.

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US Army Spc. Angel Mendoza, assigned as a space aggressor operator to the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron, Schreiver Air Force Base, Colo., secures a helical antenna to a gravel pad adjacent to the flight line Aug. 8, 2016, during RED FLAG-Alaska (RF-A) 16-3, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Along with two modems and an amplifier, space aggressors at RF-A 16-3 interrupt GPS systems for navigation and weapons, which pilots use during the exercise designed to simulate the first 10 combat sorties of a surge operation or conflict. |US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel 
 
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The 527th Space Aggressors Squadron and 26th Space Aggressors Squadron emblems are painted side by side on doors inside the Space Aggressors’ facility at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. |US Air Force/2nd Lt. Darren Domingo 
 

 

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