http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/0...ile/index.html
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Under a space policy authorized by President Bush in August, the United States asserts a right to "freedom of action in space" and says it will "deter others from either impeding those rights or developing capabilities intended to do so."
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. If I read that correctly, the US can shoot down anything they want, and can forcefully destroy installations within other countries which could be linked to any type of launching facility?
Doesn't that simply read "We can do it, but we don't want you to"??
while i can't find any reference to us shooting down sats in 1985 from ground base , the only thing that i could come back with was the ASM-135 - it's air-launched (from modified F-15s), not ground-launched
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-135.html
the chinese late last year did do tests to blind satelites , firing high power lasers