Cold War: America’s Kinetic Energy Hit to Kill Missile used to destroy Russian Satellites!

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After World War II, the United States and the USSR became engaged in the Cold War. Communism Vs Capitalism. After the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite, into orbit in 1957, the Space Race of the Cold War began. The US and the Soviets became engaged in an ever increasing race for technology in space. This race included the building and implementation of weapons, specifically,y nuclear weapons. The rocket the Soviets used to launch Sputnik could also be used as an Inter Continental Ballistic Missile or ICBM. This sparked fears the Soviets could reach the US with nuclear weapons.

During the Space Race, the US and the Soviets went back and forth with being in the lead. The Soviets put the first satellite into orbit and the first man, Yuri Gagarin, into orbit. The US put the first man on the moon. With growing fears regarding the weaponization of satellites, in the early 1980s, the US developed an Anti Satellite Missile which was launched from an F-15 Eagle at approximately 38,000 feet.

The F-15 was a rocket by itself. In fact, in 1983, an Israeli F-15 collided with another Israeli A-4 Skyhawk during a training mission. The A-4 crew ejected immediately however the Eagle Driver was able to fly the F-15 to a landing strip and land the bird, with one wing! The After Accident Investigation conducted by a crew from McDonnell Douglas stated "Okay, the F-15 has a very wide body. If you fly it fast enough you're like a rocket. You don't need wings".

The missile was the Vought ASM-135 which was armed with e kinetic energy warhead. The US feared deploying nuclear weapons to destroy satellites could have negative effects on vital US satellites as well either be being struck with space debris or being rendered inoperable through the (Nuclear) Electromagnetic Pulse, EMP, shock wave created by nuclear blasts.

On 13 September, 1985, Maj. Wilbert "Doug" Pearson took off in an F-15A which was code named: Celestial Eagle. The F-15 carried the ASM-135 and at approximately 1240 hours, the F-15 flew at a 65 degree Zoom Climb. The ASM-135 automatically launched from the Eagle at 38,100 feet where it locked onto its target, the Slowind P78-1, a defunct satellite.

The ASM-135 directly impacted the satellite at a height of approximately 350 miles above the Pacific Ocean. Pearson became the first and only Space Ace of the United States Air Force. This test also told the world the only reason other countries were allowed to have satellites is because the US allowed them too.

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