US Deploys Doomsday Satellites In Orbit

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The Pentagon has initiated a program to deliver advanced communications satellites into orbit. These satellites are insured against a nuclear war, since they can keep in touch even in extreme conditions. The new Advanced Extremely High Frequency AEHF generation satellites will be able to communicate during a nuclear war and are resistant to electronic interference, according to the magazine Popular Mechanics.

US Deploys Doomsday Satellites In Orbit




To date, four AEHF spacecraft are in geostationary orbit, two more satellites will be launched in 2019 and 2020, for the creation of which 29,8 million dollars have been allocated.

A system of such satellites is capable of sending signals even in conditions of nuclear war, when the atmosphere is filled with charged particles emitting electromagnetic waves. Regular communication does not work in such a “noise”, however, AEHF technology increases the likelihood of a signal passing through several beams, while maintaining a special “hot line” for the White House.

In addition, the project provides for equipping satellites with additional engines and laser guns, which will help them protect themselves from a possible physical attack.
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  1. +13
    16 February 2018 16: 30
    And in Russia, in my opinion, such people have been flying for a long time and are changing their orbits strangely ..
    And you can blow up a barrel of nails in the orbits of these satellites (a very simple solution, since the days of the USSR) Oh gentlemen, you have nowhere to see the money .. Remember your SOI ..!
    1. +4
      16 February 2018 16: 33
      Satellites can and will work, but in the atmosphere, i.e. on earth only: "Young lady, connect with Smolny ..." laughing
      1. +10
        16 February 2018 16: 41
        They have everything of high quality! Impassable missile defense, non-intercepted missiles, satellites see even underground, impenetrable armor, and all piercing cartridges. And conceit, the most! Until he runs into "... Houston, we have a problem ...
        1. +5
          16 February 2018 17: 07
          Laser guns optional? They couldn’t make a normal one on a ship, but here in space they could make a satellite. It seems to have revised star wars. what у
          1. +13
            16 February 2018 17: 33
            Normal information warfare and the promotion of an arms race.
            1. 0
              16 February 2018 22: 46
              Quote: MIKHAN
              And you can blow up a barrel of nails in the orbits of these satellites

              No, really! If to undermine in orbit, then only with pathos!
              That is, not with nails, but with screws, and with left-hand thread!
        2. +1
          16 February 2018 18: 08
          They have everything of high quality! Impassable missile defense, missile defense interceptors, satellites see even underground, impenetrable armor, and all piercing rounds. And conceit, the most

          So, they doubted their exclusivity!
          Come for them Apocalypse!
          Then we'll laugh am laughing
          1. 0
            16 February 2018 18: 16
            Quote: reservist
            They have everything of high quality! Impassable missile defense, missile defense interceptors, satellites see even underground, impenetrable armor, and all piercing rounds. And conceit, the most

            So, they doubted their exclusivity!
            Come for them Apocalypse!
            Then we'll laugh am laughing


            Classic snatch out of context !!! : :))) See the original message ...
          2. +2
            16 February 2018 18: 46
            Quote: reservist

            ..... Then we'll laugh am laughing

            THEN there will be nobody to laugh.
            A system of such satellites is capable of sending signals even in a nuclear war, ....... supporting a special “hot line” for the White House.

            I wonder how long the White House will exist in the "nuclear war" in their opinion?
            1. +1
              17 February 2018 04: 04
              In the opinion of Popular Mechanics, the White House is eternal ... wassat
        3. +5
          16 February 2018 20: 16
          Mr. Trump is haunted by the laurels of Ronald Reagan with his SDI. laughing
        4. 0
          17 February 2018 08: 19
          Where did they test them, that they give out such bold declarations! Losers! Yes
        5. +1
          17 February 2018 09: 53
          After reading such major and victorious messages from my colleagues, it’s my personal head that for some reason came precisely our reports about our very presamy superweapon. It’s such a super-duper that the Jews with a smile destroy almost the entire Syrian air defense system, armed with our super-mega missiles, while losing only one plane, and the Americans defiantly wet our guys for three hours, driving them through the desert and at the same time all Mega-super Russian weapons, pulled into huge numbers in Syria, are bashfully silent and pretend that nothing terrible is happening. Where were the invincible Su-35s? Why didn’t American planes and helicopters ground the S-400 that went far from the competition? Where did the invincible megabye Russian helicopters look? And why the hell then are they needed such super-duper, if you are afraid of applying? Maybe we should not make weapons, but a new minister of defense, who will have eggs?
          1. +2
            17 February 2018 10: 19
            /// Maybe it is not necessary to make weapons, but a new Minister of Defense, who will have eggs? /// Maybe better than the Commander-in-Chief?
      2. +7
        16 February 2018 17: 08
        when the atmosphere is filled with charged particles emitting electromagnetic waves


        It is a masterpiece". What kind of waves are these, and what kind of particles do they emit? Maybe just areas of increased ionization that violate the distribution of SW, HF.

        Oh, got it. This admins throw superficial articles so that we do not feel like complete ignoramuses. Option "Glory Kovtun."
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    3. +3
      16 February 2018 17: 07
      Quote: MIKHAN
      And you can blow up a barrel of nails in the orbits of these satellites (a very simple solution, since the days of the USSR) Oh gentlemen, you have nowhere to see the money .. Remember your SOI ..!


      A satellite in orbit will encounter one random nail out of a million chance of course. But through
      a million years. It’s hard to put minefields there.
      1. 0
        16 February 2018 18: 02
        It is useless - you will fill up your satellites and you can’t put many orbits into all the nails.
    4. +22
      16 February 2018 17: 10
      ]
      Quote: MIKHAN
      And you can blow up a barrel of nails in the orbits of these satellites (a very simple solution, since the days of the USSR) Oh gentlemen, you have nowhere to see the money .. Remember your SOI ..!

      A barrel with nails will not be able to determine whose satellites are knocking down.
      Too much patriotism cheer on the site. But really at the moment:
      - The Americans launched a superheavy rocket, ours may be ready by 2027.
      - Almighty Shell in Syria shot down plywood UAVs already above the base, and not on the approaches. This is a jamb and how many modern UAVs would be shot down?
      - Tiger cars have not justified themselves in Syria, weak mine protection, we buy again from the Italians.
      - Su 57 - where are they? How many can actually build them, and the F-35 is sculpted and sculpted.
      - Kolomenskaya turbine on a long-term construction Admiral Gorshkov fell apart
      - Armata, Coalition - a lot of problems, therefore, only for the parade and advertising.
      Of course, everything is not so bad with the new weapons as in the 90s, but it's too early to rejoice, there are a lot of problems and we would at least not catch up, and get closer to the striped ones in terms of armaments.
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      2. +12
        16 February 2018 17: 57
        - The Americans launched a superheavy rocket, ours may be ready by 2027.
        It will be considered superheavy after the withdrawal of 64 tons at the DOE. In the meantime, only PR, PR, PR.
        And in general - the only superheavy raken is Energy. Well, maybe the Shuttle complex.
        Still, under 100 tons of REAL payload.

        - Almighty Shell in Syria shot down plywood UAVs already above the base, and not on the approaches. This is a jamb and how many modern UAVs would be shot down?
        In the last raid of "peaceful" Israelis on the "aggressive" Syrians, it was the SYRIAN shell that shot down 19 of 26 missiles. "KOSYAK", however ...

        - Tiger cars have not justified themselves in Syria, weak mine protection, we buy again from the Italians.
        Proof in the studio is weak? How much, what was purchased, where is it used ...

        - Su 57 - where are they? How many can really build them, and the F-35 is sculpted and sculpted.
        How many Sushki is for you at the FSB, there EVERYONE will tell, or maybe show.
        Tell me something else - how many B1 and B2 fly? Cool for the most I do not want! And they are already writing off. And why?
        I’ll tell you so - they would have quickly replaced the F-15 and F-16 with a Super Penguin! We would sleep better.

        - Kolomenskaya turbine on a long-term construction Admiral Gorshkov fell apart
        As far as I know, the Chinese diesel engine has collapsed, but not the point - even if the turbine. A negative result is also a result. Correct, will work even better than planned.

        - Armata, Coalition - a lot of problems, therefore, only for the parade and advertising.
        AND? The latest concept, no one has anything like it even close, naturally tested, brought to mind. Our field is not bare - the T90, T80 and T-72 and Msta can hit any aggressor in the teeth.

        Is this all YOUR EVIDENCE?
        It’s rather weak, don’t you?
        1. +3
          16 February 2018 19: 54
          Nobody proves anything to you, you just need to take off your pink glasses and turn on your brains. If in rocket science at the time of the collapse of the USSR, we were 15-20 years ahead of the whole world, now there is no advantage. In electronics, we lag behind the stripes, this is not classified information. In other weapons, open at least Wikipedia and compare the army of the USSR and the Russian Federation, aviation, fleet, ground forces ... Until mass enlisted in the troops, we can assume that neither SU-57, nor armata, nor the coalition .... . simply no.
          1. 0
            26 February 2018 21: 13
            Rocket science rocket science is different. If in powder rockets - this is how minke whales always had an "advantage", it still exists. But in the liquid, the most high-torque and powerful - call ... Let the BE-4 first at least once put the payload into space. Then we'll talk about who caught up with whom.
            This is for the pink glasses.
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        1. +1
          16 February 2018 19: 03
          In quarries, it was especially evident how thrifty. They didn’t even let our golden-handed and thrifty kamens and libkhera. We saved the working equipment from rationalizers. We repair that we always have expensive pleasure. poverty
      4. +2
        16 February 2018 19: 59
        Quote: Lavrenty Pavlovich
        A barrel with nails will not be able to determine whose satellites are knocking down.

        Well, you can still calculate ..! and lasers are not needed, just “BOOM” in front of the satellite’s nose and EVERYTHING!
        Quote: Lavrenty Pavlovich
        Too much patriotism cheer on the site. But really at the moment:

        Too many whining and defeatist cries on our site .. !!!
        I remember the 90s, too, with the whining, the collapse of the USSR began! Alas, gentlemen, this time you will not succeed in redistributing the property, we will now wet everyone! Taught by the bitter experience of the bloody history of Russia ..
    5. +1
      16 February 2018 20: 22
      A nuclear explosion in space will solve everything and let no one even put on satellites. In which case you can forget about space ....
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  2. +1
    16 February 2018 16: 31
    Morse Sun Bunny wassat
    1. +1
      16 February 2018 17: 00
      Quote: hrych
      Morse Sun Bunny wassat

      and miss the dust of a bunny?
      1. +1
        16 February 2018 17: 35
        So there is no smoke with steam (clouds), the main hope ...
    2. +3
      16 February 2018 17: 33
      Morse is not morse, and no one paid attention to the main thing.
      In addition, the project provides for equipping satellites with additional engines and laser guns, which will help them protect themselves from a possible physical attack.

      If it were not in reality a fighter satellite project. and the connection is so, for disguise or as a nice bonus.
      1. +3
        16 February 2018 17: 41
        Yes, what is trifling there, let the video immediately show
      2. 0
        16 February 2018 17: 45
        Quote: just EXPL
        Morse is not morse, and no one paid attention to the main thing.
        In addition, the project provides for equipping satellites with additional engines and laser guns, which will help them protect themselves from a possible physical attack.

        If it were not in reality a fighter satellite project. and the connection is so, for disguise or as a nice bonus.

        and they had a statement like they need a peaceful satellite repairman, well, there, fly up, repair - maybe they decided to combine)))))
  3. +2
    16 February 2018 16: 33
    Naive to whom they will give signals and why. After a nuclear strike, perhaps the Martians will receive their signal.
    1. +6
      16 February 2018 16: 39
      Naive to whom they will give signals and why. After a nuclear strike, perhaps the Martians will receive their signal.
      They are needed for communication of control structures during chaos after an impact, responses in any situation + knocking them down in a "hospital" is extremely difficult ..
    2. 0
      16 February 2018 18: 04
      The rest of the world that nuclear strikes will not affect.
      1. 0
        17 February 2018 07: 54
        And he will be this world?
        1. 0
          17 February 2018 20: 38
          And what will happen to other countries. - Will adapt to new environmental conditions.
  4. +4
    16 February 2018 16: 35
    Tell me, do I have one feeling that the USA has been peddling in its spending? Such a feeling of mass insanity.
    1. +1
      16 February 2018 17: 07
      The printing press operates in three shifts ...
      1. +1
        16 February 2018 18: 04
        The printing press they have long been automated.
  5. +4
    16 February 2018 16: 35
    Just did not come up with mattresses, so that they would not be torn from earthly resources angry
  6. +5
    16 February 2018 16: 36
    Ours also recently hung a similar satellite on the "hospital" ...
  7. +1
    16 February 2018 16: 41
    With whom will these satellites be connected in the event of a full-scale nuclear conflict? Except for the US administration with the leaders of the Indian tribes whom they destroyed.
    1. +2
      16 February 2018 17: 10
      Quote: ancestors from the Don
      Who will these satellites connect with

      the answer in such a nasal voice: "with a distant, distant Galaxy ..."
  8. 0
    16 February 2018 16: 56
    In the context of a decrease in the number of commercial launches for Rosskosmos, there is a need to more actively use government orders for satellite launches.
  9. +1
    16 February 2018 16: 58
    no one has canceled an underground telephone cable
  10. 0
    16 February 2018 16: 58
    Quote: MIKHAN
    And in Russia, in my opinion, such people have been flying for a long time and are changing their orbits strangely ..
    And you can blow up a barrel of nails in the orbits of these satellites (a very simple solution, since the days of the USSR) Oh gentlemen, you have nowhere to see the money .. Remember your SOI ..!

    That's just the point ... That SOI turned out to be a bluff, and Gorby was addicted. And this turned out to be another nail in the lid of the coffin of the Soviet Union ...
    Most likely now they want to take a "show off".
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 20: 12
      Quote: mavrus
      Most likely now they want to take a "show off".

      That's it .. heh heh On the ISS with our rockets deliver EVERYTHING! We can deliver something else into orbit .. We have the right! soldier
  11. 0
    16 February 2018 17: 00
    TYPE so that you can call mom when the radioactive rains come ....
  12. +1
    16 February 2018 17: 08
    A satellite is a transmitter (approx.), But which device will receive and emit signals on the ground? - An electromagnetic pulse will turn off all the equipment, and it will not be needed anymore, except after a neutron charge. But it will not reach him, if that. Let them do it - there is an antidote.
    1. +1
      16 February 2018 18: 07
      EMP only radio communication can drown out, for a while and no more - everything else is fantastic.
      1. +1
        16 February 2018 19: 04
        So in the article it is written, in case of a nuclear war, and this is EMR.
  13. +1
    16 February 2018 17: 09
    And they are optimists if they think that after a nuclear war between the United States and Russia, they will survive. I think that no one will need a connection. And yes, laser guns on satellites are unlikely to save them from a bucket of nails.
    1. +1
      16 February 2018 18: 08
      Russia so far has neither "buckets" nor "nails" from satellites.
  14. 0
    16 February 2018 17: 15
    No nuclear war! MOE swore mom!
  15. 0
    16 February 2018 17: 31
    getting ready for a nuclear war?
  16. 0
    16 February 2018 17: 35
    the project provides for equipping satellites with additional engines and laser guns, which will help them protect themselves from a possible physical attack

    The Americans created a new inexhaustible source of energy, something I didn’t hear. About SOI, I heard about lasers, it seems the same, but about the presence of a new energy source ...............
  17. 0
    16 February 2018 17: 38
    Quote: KVU-NSVD
    Ours also recently hung a similar satellite on the "hospital" ...

    Where the woods come from, share ...
  18. +1
    16 February 2018 17: 42
    Quote: MIKHAN
    And in Russia, in my opinion, such people have been flying for a long time and are changing their orbits strangely ..
    And you can blow up a barrel of nails in the orbits of these satellites (a very simple solution, since the days of the USSR) Oh gentlemen, you have nowhere to see the money .. Remember your SOI ..!

    They fly ... and they look after the Amerans, but you, Mikhan, will not be believed, they will drag out a song about a hundred-year backwardness, they will remember about the Union, they will end up with Putin’s plum and liberals sabotaging space ...
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 20: 16
      Quote: Hurricane70
      They fly ... and they look after the Americans, but you, Mikhan, will not be believed, a song about a hundred-year backwardness will be delayed, remember about the Union, end up with Putin’s drain and the liberals sabotaging the cosmos ...

      Yes, I know that’s all and how I can shut up jackals howling at the Russian border and inside (the most vicious ..)
      We break through, we are surrounded by jackals of the west again .. negative
  19. HAM
    0
    16 February 2018 17: 49
    "..... supporting a special" hot line "for the White House ...."

    It seems that the whole world is in dust, and the White House is immortal! A clinical case of SELF-CONFIDENCE.
    1. +1
      16 February 2018 18: 11
      They have an impenetrable confidence that their missile defense systems will save and the more these systems are, the more this confidence will be strengthened.
  20. 0
    16 February 2018 17: 58
    AEHF technology increases the probability of signal transmission thanks to several beams
    Only Americans are able to spend huge sums on absurd technology, and change the "laws of physics" for the sake of advertising. I don’t know how in the USA, but in my opinion any student with a 4th degree in physics understands that the higher the frequency of the signal, the lower its penetrating ability. Therefore, AEHF 44 and 20 GHz signals, even with weak cloud cover, lose up to 50% of their power. Under ionization conditions, the power loss will be tens of decibels!
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 18: 15
      Perhaps it is not a radio signal, but the transmission of information by a microwave or laser beam.
      1. 0
        16 February 2018 18: 23
        Quote: Vadim237
        microwave or laser beam

        lasers generally do not pass through clouds - they scatter. And the AEHF range just relates to the microwave.
  21. +1
    16 February 2018 18: 03
    Quote: Lavrenty Pavlovich
    ]
    Quote: MIKHAN
    And you can blow up a barrel of nails in the orbits of these satellites (a very simple solution, since the days of the USSR) Oh gentlemen, you have nowhere to see the money .. Remember your SOI ..!

    A barrel with nails will not be able to determine whose satellites are knocking down.
    Too much patriotism cheer on the site. But really at the moment:
    - The Americans launched a superheavy rocket, ours may be ready by 2027.
    - Almighty Shell in Syria shot down plywood UAVs already above the base, and not on the approaches. This is a jamb and how many modern UAVs would be shot down?
    - Tiger cars have not justified themselves in Syria, weak mine protection, we buy again from the Italians.
    - Su 57 - where are they? How many can actually build them, and the F-35 is sculpted and sculpted.
    - Kolomenskaya turbine on a long-term construction Admiral Gorshkov fell apart
    - Armata, Coalition - a lot of problems, therefore, only for the parade and advertising.
    Of course, everything is not so bad with the new weapons as in the 90s, but it's too early to rejoice, there are a lot of problems and we would at least not catch up, and get closer to the striped ones in terms of armaments.


    And where does the cheers and patriotism?
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 20: 19
      Quote: cedar
      And where does the cheers and patriotism?

      They hate Russia and people like me especially .. They need nagging. like in the 90s!
  22. 0
    16 February 2018 18: 05
    Is he connected with wires to the ground, what would work through hard radiation? laughing
    1. +1
      16 February 2018 20: 16
      he will communicate with ground-based transponders of which the military have pushed thousands across the globe, the transponders are connected to a network.
  23. wax
    0
    16 February 2018 18: 19
    White painted house.
  24. NKT
    0
    16 February 2018 19: 09
    I don’t understand something, are these Jones and Beans hoping to survive after an exchange of nuclear strikes?
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 19: 29
      And what is not - most have their own bunkers, with large reserves.
  25. 0
    16 February 2018 19: 17
    “The project provides for equipping the satellites with additional engines and laser guns, which will help them protect themselves from a possible physical attack.” - Marya Ivanovna also thought “what will help” - It didn’t help!
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 19: 31
      Marya Ivanovna may not have helped, but she will help her companion.
  26. +1
    16 February 2018 19: 39
    Quote: MIKHAN
    And in Russia, in my opinion, such people have been flying for a long time and are changing their orbits strangely.

    If such fly, Vitalik, but they "strangely do not change their orbits." They, like the Americans, weigh on the geostationary

    Quote: MIKHAN
    And you can blow up a barrel of nails in the orbits of these satellites (a very simple solution, since the days of the USSR) Oh gentlemen, you have nowhere to see the money .. Remember your SOI ..!

    Yes, one near-minded person once spoke about nails and all. now war in space without the use of nails is no longer perceived by many.
    And for a barrel with nails blown up in this orbit Americans will reward you with their highest order and put you a 10-meter monument. In gratitude, After all, you will do something that would be difficult for them to do. Destroy the space segment SPRN Russia. And we won’t learn about the start of American missiles not in 10-15 seconds, but when they overcome half the way

    Quote: BerBer
    Tell me, do I have one feeling that the USA has been peddling in its spending? Such a feeling of mass insanity.

    Why madness. Maybe they sometimes go too far with prices, but they would hardly be spending on absolutely unnecessary weapons. As for the passage of radio waves in an indignant atmosphere - but our perimeter command missiles also transmit (will transmit) commands in the same situation. So it's possible
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 20: 29
      Quote: Old26
      And for the barrel of nails blown up in this orbit, the Americans will reward you with their highest order and put you a 10-meter monument. In gratitude, After all, you will do something that would be difficult for them to do. Destroy the space segment SPRN Russia. And we won’t learn about the start of American missiles not in 10-15 seconds, but when they overcome half the way

      Well with a barrel of nails. I was still joking (although there is such a strategy. 0)
      But seriously, we are scared in Russia and more than once. and we won’t be able to untwist an arms race in space once again .. We have something to answer and THIS IS MAIN!
      I’m still for a tank fist .. Already a hundred will get to the Atlantic and wash the tracks in the ocean! Having avenged ALL of us!
  27. +2
    16 February 2018 20: 29
    New satellites of the AEHF generation (Advanced Extremely High Frequency) will be able to provide communications during a nuclear war and are resistant to electronic interference, reports Popular Mechanics.
    it remains only to clarify between whom will provide communication, between satellite 1 and satellite 2?
    the project provides for equipping satellites with additional engines and laser guns
    I believe that nuclear power plants. Success in the cut.
  28. 0
    16 February 2018 20: 38
    Quote: MIKHAN
    Quote: Lavrenty Pavlovich
    A barrel with nails will not be able to determine whose satellites are knocking down.

    Well, you can still calculate ..! and lasers are not needed, just “BOOM” in front of the satellite’s nose and EVERYTHING!
    Quote: Lavrenty Pavlovich
    Too much patriotism cheer on the site. But really at the moment:

    Too many whining and defeatist cries on our site .. !!!
    I remember the 90s, too, with the whining, the collapse of the USSR began! Alas, gentlemen, this time you will not succeed in redistributing the property, we will now wet everyone! Taught by the bitter experience of the bloody history of Russia ..

    Quote: Asterisk
    A nuclear explosion in space will solve everything and let no one even put on satellites. In which case you can forget about space ....

    There the space is different - the cosmos, not the surface. Will not decide!
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 22: 40
      Quote: ASed
      There the space is different - the cosmos, not the surface. Will not decide!

      In space, it’s just that you can calmly engage in cascading .. I want to go into space! soldier
      1. +1
        17 February 2018 10: 08
        In near-Earth space, several or several dozen explosions of ordinary shrapnel charges will solve everything. The main thing is that there should be more fragments, but they overlap all the orbits for the satellites.
        1. 0
          17 February 2018 20: 42
          Your shrapnel bombs to these companions will be on the drum - in which case, they will transfer to a higher orbit.
  29. +1
    17 February 2018 10: 05
    Reagan grins in a coffin. Star wars live in the hearts of his followers. And Goebbels is also glad - his principles, as during his lifetime, continue to work.
  30. 0
    17 February 2018 15: 52
    probably on our engines put into orbit?
    1. 0
      17 February 2018 20: 40
      Rather, on rockets and engines Ilona Mask. It’s cheaper.