According to the US military chief, MAD Vlad wants to send nuclear weapons into space so that he can target satellites to cause global devastation.
Vladimir Putin’s plot may resemble a “space Pearl Harbor.”
If the Russians detonated a nuclear weapon in low orbit, it would destroy more than 80 percent of the satellites in space.
That’s more than 10,000 satellites – this attack would deal a major blow to military intelligence.
But it could also knock out internet, mobile phone signals and GPS in much of the world.
General Stephen Whiting, head of US Space Command told The Times That the US was “very concerned” about the Kremlin’s plans to launch nuclear weapons into space.
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Russia is making ‘shrapnel cloud’ weapon to destroy Musk’s satellites, NATO fears
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Putin claimed his new arsenal of future nuclear weapons could help Russia capture the Moon
He said Russia’s signal jamming in Ukraine was already being done “recklessly”, “thus affecting civil aviation in Eastern Europe and all of Southern Europe”.
Whiting warned that nuclear weapons in space would increase Russia’s threat to Britain, given its low space defense spending.
He said Britain needed to spend more to defend against cosmic warfare, adding that the next big war “will probably be a war starting in space”.
It comes as NATO intelligence revealed Moscow is developing a terrifying new weapon to take out Elon Musk’s Starlink system.
The Russian president’s so-called “shrapnel cloud” missiles were designed to destroy the Tesla boss’ high-tech internet conglomerate.
In practice, the “zone-effect” weapon would spray a wave of high-density pellets toward Starlink orbiters — clusters of satellites critical to keeping Musk’s Internet system alive.
Starlink currently poses a major threat to Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine.
For more than four years, Musk’s army of low-orbit satellites has been vital to Ukraine’s survival against Russian aggression.
Ukrainian forces are relying on Starlink’s high-speed Internet service for battlefield communications.
They also use the system to aim weapons, along with other roles vital to keeping the nation together.
And last year Putin bragged about Russia’s new arsenal of terrifying nuclear weapons, which he claims could help his country capture the Moon.
The aging dictator boasted in November about nuclear-armed cruise missiles and super-torpedoes, saying the technology behind the strategic weapons could be used for space travel and lunar missions.
