A Polish company was hired to deploy data-center satellites with high-power microwave weapons. Those satellites can destroy incoming anti-satellite weapons. But satellites can also use the same microwave weapons to destroy other satellites. Satellites play a vital role in modern military operations. This means. They are top-priority targets for enemy operations. Satellites search for targets. For aircraft and drones. They navigate aircraft, ships, and weapons to targets.
Satellites operate at all levels. In military operations. Strategies and tactics. They base data on what satellites collect. Modern satellite technology. It allows command and control of individual soldiers from another side of the world.
Combined combat tactics. The principle is precise knowledge of the location of one's own troops and the enemy. Next-generation tools like combat robots require more advanced data connections. Those satellites are becoming vital elements in combat scenarios.
Artillery, gunship helicopters, and aircraft. They require location knowledge to operate precisely and accurately. This means that those systems require satellites. Satellites connect forces under one centralized command. Without those satellites, the HQ cannot command and deliver supplies. Nuclear submarines also need satellites to provide operational launch codes to their missiles and other nukes. Submarines cannot launch without those codes. And that’s why those communication satellites are targets for killer satellites.
Pentagon says that ASAT weapons are the priority on the list. And we can guess that Russia thinks the same. Russia has tested its own anti-satellite capacity. And that thing requires a counter-reaction.
The role of satellites is becoming bigger all the time. New hypersonic missiles require ultra-fast reaction. If. A suspected hypersonic missile launch. There is no time to send AWACS to search for the enemy and control defenses.
Another problem is that AWACS is a potential target for high-speed anti-radiation missiles. The third thing is that. There are not enough AWACS platforms to cover the entire world. This is why the Pentagon wants to create a satellite network. That covers the entire planet. This network of radar satellites. It can detect threats in less than one second. But those satellites. They are vulnerable to ASAT missiles that can detect radar signals.
Satellites can drop drone swarms into operational areas. They can rise targets and mark them. This is the satellites' priority in operations: reconnaissance. Reconnaissance satellites. Make real-time command-and-control battles possible. They play a vital role in all kinds of transportation and affect operations. Reconnaissance and attack patrols, as well as drone swarms, use satellites for navigation. Maybe quite soon. Satellites can launch conventional air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. Those missiles can hit things like strategic bombers. Even. Individual vehicles.
Weapons make them killer satellites. This means that there are killer and counter-killer satellites. The problem with killer satellites is that they are good targets for other killer satellites. But the problem is how to uncover those satellites. But. If a killer satellite loses its shield. The other satellites can destroy it. The orbital nukes can cause massive destruction with an EMP impulse.
In many scenarios. Thermonuclear war begins with an EMP strike. The EMP weapon is hidden in the regular-looking satellite. When. That satellite is in the right position. The EMP weapon detonates. And that electromagnetic pulse hits the ground. The disaster can be huge. When we think about cases like the Starfish Prime nuclear test over Honolulu on June 9, 1962, the entire city went down. Modern technology is more vulnerable to EMP than older technology.
The EMP pulse from 1,4 megaton warhead. Detonated at an altitude of about 400 kilometers. Destroyed things. Like 1960s radios. This kind of weapon can be launched just before the nuclear strike. And those systems. They require a very fast reaction. The microwave pulses are also EMP weapons. The system can create the EMP microwave using high-power capacitors. The system can use solar panels to create that destructive pulse. The system is very easy to make. And the fact is that. Any satellite that carries this kind of counter-ASAT system can use it against other satellites.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/satellite-defense-ares-shield-contract-lonestar-data-holdings
https://www.twz.com/space/new-anti-satellite-weapons-now-officially-a-top-u-s-priority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime










