This star is going to the moon

Chapter 462 American: "Chinese, you actually used my 'Star Wars' program against me!"

"Fuck, how did the Federation become like this?!"

"Are we just going to watch China and Laos expand into the space battlefield?"

"What's the use of not watching? They have space fighters and orbital paratroopers, and they might even have space carriers in the future, while we have nothing!"

"Yes, even though the navy has eleven aircraft carriers, if the battlefield were viewed from a space perspective, the aircraft carriers on the sea would just be moving targets."

"Hey, don't say that, the navy won't be happy to hear it."

"Shit, I was transferred from the Navy's submarine force to the Space Force. Only the carrier faction would be unhappy with what you're saying, but everyone with eyes can see that the Federation is about to be unable to maintain 11 carriers, yet they still insist on hogging a large portion of the military budget. That's a complete waste! Now is the perfect opportunity to make the White House and the congressmen realize the importance of the space battlefield!"

"It's hard to say. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier faction is still too powerful. They've even written the requirement to have 11 aircraft carriers into the law..."

NASA personnel breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the Space Force members jumping up and down and steer the conversation toward the Navy's aircraft carrier faction.

However, this is only temporary.

The things the Chinese are doing now are too ruthless, just like the "High Frontier" strategy and "Star Wars" program that the United States pursued in the 1980s.

At that time, the arms race between the US and Russia had reached a fever pitch.

Compared to the US, the US is at a relative disadvantage in strategic nuclear weapons, but has the upper hand in space technology.

Fearing that the "nuclear balance" would be broken, the United States proposed the "high frontier" strategy.

It intends to leverage its space technology advantages to establish a space weapon system, providing space defense against strategic nuclear weapon attacks, in order to eliminate the growing nuclear threat from the Great Bear.

Based on its "high frontier" strategy, the United States established a project called the "Strategic Defense Initiative for Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense System," which is commonly known as the "Star Wars" program.

The primary objective of the "Star Wars" program was to establish a multi-layered, multi-means integrated defense system, employing space-based directed energy weapons and kinetic energy weapons to intercept ballistic missiles in four phases: boost phase, terminal boost phase, midcourse phase, and reentry phase.

It boasts an overall interception rate of up to 99.999%!

Meanwhile, because satellites play an irreplaceable role in surveillance, early warning, communication, and navigation, the "Star Wars" program also included an "anti-satellite program," which mainly involved deploying anti-satellite weapons capable of destroying enemy military satellites, rendering them ineffective.

In 1985, the same year the "Star Wars" program was officially launched, the United States established the Space Command, which can be considered the "budding" of the Space Force.

In the early 1990s, with the old bear's two legs kicking—it seemed to have ended.

The United States also announced the termination of the "Star Wars" program.

However, its Cold War-era "high frontier" strategy did not end, but was inherited and developed, and the militarization of space has intensified under the impetus of the United States.

Since the beginning of the new century, the United States has first established a space warfare research center and a space warfare laboratory, and formulated a space protection strategy.

They successively established space warfare experimental and combat units to verify space warfare and weapon systems.

Furthermore, the space policy was revised, establishing a series of strategic goals aimed at achieving absolute military superiority in space. NASA stated that it will spare no effort in innovation in the field of space exploration in order to stay at the forefront of the "space economy" and obtain the greatest benefits.

The United Nations has long called for the demilitarization of space and has voted on related proposals and resolutions on numerous occasions, but the United States has always contradicted it.

The UN Conference on Disarmament proposed a draft treaty to prevent an arms race in outer space, which would prohibit any country from deploying any weapons in outer space. However, this was met with strong opposition from the United States. The US opposed the draft treaty to facilitate its own large-scale development of space militarization in the future. As a result, China has now used this issue to get ahead and has begun large-scale space militarization earlier than the US.

Of course, in reality, China and Laos have not developed such technology, and even if they have, it is not on a large scale. The publicly disclosed progress so far is only in various defensive anti-satellite weapons.

But who are the Americans? They want to militarize space, and China must think the same way!

After all, if the previous "Star Wars program" was a strategic deception that was half true and half false, then the Chinese are now making it real.

The Muyuan-class space shuttle is for civilian use, but with a little modification, it can be turned into a military vehicle.

The Americans themselves say that their X-37B is dual-use, capable of launching civilian payloads as well as carrying space weapons.

Another thing is the "space emergency escape device" that was just successfully tested. With some modifications, that thing can be transformed into a special military device for individual soldiers to enter the atmosphere.

Not to mention the kilometer-level spacecraft that followed.

Anything that floats in space can be modified for military use.

Humans cannot build the space battleships in science fiction movies, and kilometer-sized spacecraft are indeed quite fragile, but humanity's equally fragile space attack methods make up for this.

Anyway, no matter what, the Chinese are now using the same plans the Americans had originally made to turn the tables on the Americans.

Whether it's the "high frontier" strategy or the "Star Wars" program, they have become China's forte.

The argument in the NASA conference room went on until dawn, but thankfully they managed to reach some results.

They need to produce a new summary of the "China Threat Theory: Space Version" as quickly as possible and then submit it to the White House for the President to review.

The funding for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers is not something they can decide. The military-industrial complex is stronger than them, but given the current situation, they should increase their aerospace funding as much as possible.

Furthermore, the Space Force can also connect with the military-industrial complex, so we must try to win them over.

Fortunately, in addition to these bad news, NASA also has good news: after consulting with Lockheed Martin, they have assured that the new X-33 space shuttle with single-stage-to-orbit capability can make its maiden flight at the end of the month!
This relieved NASA, as they were fortunate not to have fallen too far behind China.

Although the X-33 needs to be mounted on a tower for vertical takeoff and cannot take off horizontally on a runway like the Kite-class space shuttle, it is classified as an "advanced space shuttle".

Or, in the words of the Chinese, it's like "the pinnacle of space shuttle technology" or "a half-step space shuttle."

However, as one of only two single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft in the world, it can be described to the outside world as a space shuttle, just like the "Wooden Kite".

In any case, ordinary people can't tell the difference; it's just a matter of what these aerospace elites say.

While the Americans have given their explanation, Chinese netizens are celebrating.

They thought the same way as the Americans, immediately linking space carriers, space fighters, and orbital paratroopers together.

After all, the top leaders of China are all about grand strategy and need strategic resolve, while netizens are definitely hawks.

Putting aside other issues, online trials alone often start with the death penalty.

(End of this chapter)