As previously reported, the US administration announced the creation of a new kind of armed forces - space. These forces are planned to form a 2020 year in the Pentagon structure. About it 9 August, said Vice President Mike Pence during a speech before the US military.
This will be the sixth form of the US Armed Forces, I wrote on Friday on the occasion of the French newspaper Le Figaro. What is the task of the new Space Forces? provide US “dominance in space”. “The time has come to write a new chapter in the history of our armed forces and to prepare new battlefields”, - tsitiruet Gazeta words Mother pension.
18 June US President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of the Space Forces. And before that,, Speaking in May to the members of the National Space Council, he declared, that “America is not enough simply to maintain a presence in space, and there need to dominate”. “In one generation, the position of power in space has changed dramatically”, - tried to explain the words of Trump during his speech yesterday, Deputy. “Today, some nations are trying to prevent our space systems and more and more are trying to challenge American supremacy”, - said Mike Pence. First of all he meant Russia and China.
he recalled, what in 2007 , China was destroyed in orbit its own old weather satellite using ballistic missile. It was “extremely provocative demonstration of China's growing capabilities of the militarization of space”, - zayavïl pence. As for Russia, the, According to him, she is “developing an airborne laser” to deal with the American system, and “missiles, that can be in flight to release from the aircraft to destroy American satellites”.
“Our opponents have already made space in the area of combat operations”, - zaklyuçïl pence.
Creation of a new Ministry of War is planned to 2020 of the year, When will be the new US presidential elections. by the way, this idea has picked up in the campaign headquarters of Donald Trump, inviting ordinary Americans to come up with a logo of new space powers.
but, before creating such a ministry, necessary to obtain the approval of the US Congress. And not all lawmakers agree to allocate the defense budget an additional eight billion dollars, which sought to create a space forces the Pentagon.
Also, says Le Figaro, in ancient 1967 the United States signed the so-called “Outer Space Treaty”, Whereby, Signatory countries undertake to explore outer space for peaceful purposes.
