'Space Aggressors' Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict

[JosephDredd]

http://www.space.com/36988-space-aggressors-train-us-forces-for-extraterrestrial-conflict.html

In a large, tin-roofed warehouse near Colorado's Rocky Mountains, members of a team of modern space warriors spend their days hatching plots to defeat the US military in extraterrestrial combat.

They're called Space Aggressors.

Their job is to act like the enemy during mock space battles to help US units prepare for a conflict that may one day extend into the cosmos.

"We play the bad guys," said Captain Christopher Barnes, chief of training for the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron. "Our job is to not only understand the different types of threats and potential enemies, but also to be able to portray them and replicate them for the good guys, our Air Force."

The 26th and 527th Space Aggressor Squadrons are headquartered in a two-story warehouse at Colorado's Schriever Air Force Base, stocked with advanced radio and satellite equipment and nicknamed "the barn." Behind the building, antenna dishes trace the sky.

While attacks by the Space Aggressors are simulated, senior US military and intelligence officials warn the threat in space is very real.

America relies heavily on space assets to project force around the globe, from launching missiles to directing warships across the seas. Indeed, the Global Positioning System, or GPS, is actually a group of 31 high-orbiting satellites owned by the US government and operated by the US Air Force.

Some worry that disrupting America's vast network of satellites and ground-based systems could send US forces back to an antiquated era of targeting, communications, and navigation systems — deeply undercutting battlefield superiority.

This spring, rhetoric from US military officials about the need to bolster American defensive position, and even offensive capabilities, in space has ratcheted up amid concern that Russia and China are rapidly developing anti-satellite weapons.

"While we're not at war in space, I don't think we could say we're exactly at peace, either," Vice Admiral Charles Richard, Deputy Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, known as Stratcom, told a conference in Washington DC in March. "We must prepare for a conflict that extends into space."

More at the link. Really interesting.

 

[Hades86]

If an interplanetary species have the technology to get here then there is nothing we monkeys can do to stop them from probing our butts. *inserts you gonna get Raped pic

Just welcome your new overlord masters and hopefully they can pity us dirty neanderthals.

 

[Bacco]

If an interplanetary species have the technology to get here then there is nothing we monkeys can do to stop them from probing our butts. *inserts you gonna get Raped pic

Just welcome your new overlord masters and hopefully they can pity us dirty neanderthals.

We can throw angry chimps at them

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

We can throw angry chimps at them

 

[KnightTemplar]

If an interplanetary species have the technology to get here then there is nothing we monkeys can do to stop them from probing our butts. *inserts you gonna get Raped pic

Just welcome your new overlord masters and hopefully they can pity us dirty neanderthals.

Came here to say this. It would be like the modern US Army time-travelling back to Ancient Rome. Caesar gets KTFO in round 1.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Hudson, "Hey, Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"

Vasquez, "No. Have you?"

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

If an interplanetary species have the technology to get here then there is nothing we monkeys can do to stop them from probing our butts. *inserts you gonna get Raped pic

Just welcome your new overlord masters and hopefully they can pity us dirty neanderthals.

Maybe, if you assume they are good at waging war. Maybe they are only really good at traveling to places.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

We can't even defeat Isis in Iraq and Afghan but we're gonna defeat intergalactic alien species.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Maybe, if you assume they are good at waging war. Maybe they are only really good at traveling to places.

Best hope mankind's First Contact is with Vulcans, not Klingons

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Came here to say this. It would be like the modern US Army time-travelling back to Ancient Rome. Caesar gets KTFO in round 1.

Could also be like saying American Airlines could shit on the US Army because AA can fly wherever they want to.

Hudson, "Hey, Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"

Vasquez, "No. Have you?"

 

[El_Dyablo619]

 

[El_Dyablo619]

Can't wait for intergalactic porn!

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

We can't even defeat Isis in Iraq and Afghan but we're gonna defeat intergalactic alien species.

lol


Only because of 'rules'. Take that away, and we wipe them clean off the map. Its not because we don't have the power to do it, its the diplomacy and bureaucracy involved that keeps it from happening.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

lol


Only because of 'rules'. Take that away, and we wipe them clean off the map. Its not because we don't have the power to do it, its the diplomacy and bureaucracy involved that keeps it from happening.

Rules like not killing innocent children and other innocent people you mean.

You can't defeat these people because no one even knows who's on what side. Sure you can nuke everyone but that's not really winning is it.

 

[faustian]

If an interplanetary species have the technology to get here then there is nothing we monkeys can do to stop them from probing our butts. *inserts you gonna get Raped pic

Just welcome your new overlord masters and hopefully they can pity us dirty neanderthals.

We can't even defeat Isis in Iraq and Afghan but we're gonna defeat intergalactic alien species.

This has nothing to do with aliens u goofs

 

[KnightTemplar]

Could also be like saying American Airlines could shit on the US Army because AA can fly wherever they want to.

If you have the technology to build ships that can travel vast distances through space, you have the technology to build weapons that make the most highly advanced systems we have look like bows and arrows. The question is not if such a race could enslave or destroy us. Only that, for whatever reason, they may not wish to do so. It could be the case that no alien race has made contact with humanity simply because we have absolutely nothing they want or need.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Rules like not killing innocent children and other innocent people you mean.

You can't defeat these people because no one even knows who's on what side. Sure you can nuke everyone but that's not really winning is it.

Rules that the enemy you're talking about completely ignores themselves?

Yes Kong. That's exactly what I mean.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

If you have the technology to build ships that can travel vast distances through space, you have the technology to build weapons that make the most highly advanced systems we have look like bows and arrows. The question is not if such a race could enslave or destroy us. Only that, for whatever reason, they may not wish to do so. It could be the case that no alien race has made contact with humanity simply because we have absolutely nothing they want or need.

You assuming this doesn't make it true. If they don't think like that or have that mindset, its irrelevant. Or, maybe we as humans have actually thought of weapons systems that Aliens have never dreamed of because they were too busy applying most of their skills to figuring out other things like space travel.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

We could win, we fight all the time, maybe they'd just be great at communicating and travel but wouldn't understand combat very well