I know we keep hearing how woke the "traditional forces" of our military are, and how they are all forcing vaccines on the forces. What we never hear is a word of what the hell the space force are doing., or how the admin is acting towards them. This intuitively feels important to me.
The formation of the Space Force, for those of us who followed the secret budgets, most likely spawned from the SSP (secret space program) and made it legitimate. Trump also siloed them from their original branches, so they have a somewhat separate CoC. Ergo, whatever orders the army/navy/airforce/marines are given do not apply to the space force.
In addition, because of the secret budgets, we have no idea what technologies they have at their disposal. What we do know is they control sigint and cyber security activities now, but that's it. There have been rumors they have craft and weapons which can be considered unstoppable by "modern weaponry", and the older concept weapons like "Rods from God" are probably under their remit now too.
However, we never hear what they do re vaccinations or wokeness. Not a peep. Traditional forces sure, but no word on what Space Force is being made to do by the administration. Now, theoretically, if they are "in spaaaaace", then the virus and the vaccines cant touch them. The wokeness of today's Chiefs of Staff too seems unlikely to affect them either, as how can you enforce it if most of the units are "off world"?
This branch has now gone totally dark to my view. That to me implies a slight of hand against the cabal - "don't look up there, look down here". Everyone is driving attention to the traditional forces being ruined, but no one mentions these guys. Operations active? Is this the "trump card" we have been waiting to be deployed?
Time will tell, and i wont say they aren't impacted, but my gut and soul tells me there are wheels moving we cant see here. If so, then everything else is Kabuki.
All of them. The US has no manned military spacecraft.
Ignorance is truly bliss, isn't it.
Yes we do. Research.
In development or hangared, I'm sure we have many. But I see nothing in the current strategic situation that requires a manned presence, except for testing. Currently the mission is intelligence and information warfare, with a secondary possibility of anti-ballistic defense. Both of these can be done, and are better done, remotely. Perhaps later, if interdiction becomes a necessity, we will be using human pilots, but I see no need for that at the moment.
Personal opinions or mental gymnastics do not Trump existing facts, Fren.
Majority of people have been brainwashed to see "spaceships" as science fiction and laugh at the notion the moment someone brings them up as existing and in use. It's understandable, as the program to do this has been going on for a very long time and has been very successful. The task upon the individual is to question, simply, "why". Once the clear answer is reached, only then can their minds be open to look past the programming.
I reiterate what I said to the previous poster: Research. The info exists.
There's a few private space companies launching craft, with SpaceX being the most successful, and government agencies still launching/testing their own.
We have a permanent presence orbiting the planet. (not correcting you, Morden)
Like I said, I don't doubt that the technology and capability exist. But you select the tool based on the mission profile, not the coolness factor. So if a boring, practical satellite does the job better, you use a boring practical satellite. Manned spacecraft only become necessary if the enemy sends up assets to interfere with the mission, in which case you would then need a human presence to react accordingly.
The need for boots on the ground, boots in the air, or boots in space all fall under the same principle: the need to maintain control over the domain. Once you've secured that domain and there are no threats to that control, you can remove those boots. That's why, for example, once you achieve air superiority, you can let your pilots rest and send in the drones.
That's why, even with the capability, we don't yet have the need for a manned military presence. Unless, of course, you have reason to believe the Chinese are getting frisky and sending up forces to interfere with our satellites. That would be a different strategic situation, one that would call for a direct human presence.
I firmly believe that the X37B was designed to test stasis in a zero-g environment.
That we know of.
And I'm inclined to think that means no, we don't have any, but . . . I've reached the point where I wouldn't be surprised if they do.