The US Space Force installed a new radar system this week that it says will be able to detect objects the size of baseballs in the sky.
The Long Range Discrimination Radar is located at the Clear Space Force Base in Alaska. The radar will be used to support the US missile defense system.
Jon Hill, director of the US Missile Defense Agency, said in a press release yesterday that it was an important milestone for US homeland defense. The testing phase of the system will begin after the construction is complete.
Missile demand.
The testing phase of the system will take at least another year.
The radar will allow the US Space Force to search, track, and discriminate multiple small, baseball-sized objects in space.
Hill said that theLRDR will allow Northern Command to better defend the United States from missile threats.
The race of arms increased.
The installation of the LRDR marks a significant milestone for both the US Space Force and the burgeoning arms race.
US officials were caught off guard by a test of a hypersonic missile from China. The International Space Station crew members are not happy with Russia's anti-satellite missile tests.
The US Space Force ramping up its own detection efforts is just more evidence that the world's biggest powers are preparing for a conflict like the one that happened in the Cold War. It should stay as bloodless as possible.
The Clear base has a cutting-edge Space Force radar.
The space force general says China and Russia are attacking US satellites every single day.
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