http://www.fas.org/spp/military/prog...ck/stealth.pdf
http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/okno.pdf
I have long been interested in our space warfare capabilities. If you read the source book it is clear that the USA has put stealth satellites into orbit. Although, it looks like radar stealth does not translate necessarily into optical stealth. This plays into another interest that I have namely the OKNO Optical Tracking Station. OKNO went online in the early 1980's which is coincidentally the same time that Ronald Reagan ramped up SDI. Every Major Power has an OKNO like facility. I would conclude that there is something akin to a secret war going on in our skies.
What would stop a nation from pre-positioning Enhanced Radiation Devices in Space above their enemies? I know that Enhanced Effects Warheads were being developed in America since at least the late 50's. If it is possible to build a nuclear weapon that has the enhanced effect of gamma rays and bursts in the same way that a gamma ray burster does perpendicular to its spin. The country that deployed them first would have an incredible advantage.
It is also notable that in the OKNO document that the Russians did fire a directed energy weapon at the Space Shuttle in the 1980's. The astronauts on that mission got radiation sickness. This nearly derailed one of the summit meeting between Gorbachev and Reagan.
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