Russia’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement on Friday calling on the United States to drop its latest missile defense system plans, which involves deploying interceptor systems into space. They warn the effort will fuel an arms race.
The statement warned that the plans give the impression that the US is
trying to revive the scrapped Star Wars program from the 1980s. It also
appears to be evidence the US plans to use space for military purposes
in the near future.
Trump unveiled the new space-based missile defense a week ago,
playing up the idea of making space a “warfighting domain,” and wanting
a system that could intercept any missile anywhere on the planet at any
time.
The comparisons to the Star Wars program are obvious, in that both are
space-based, wildly ambitious, and almost certain to be prohibitively
expensive. Russia seems to be hoping they can talk the US out of going
down that path again.
deaf ears. billions in new contracts already signed.
Blowing things up in the space surrounding the planet will cause a debris field that nobody has any clue how to clean up. All kinds of junk traveling at orbital velocity. It would set humanity back by a lot.