12 Facts About Space warfare

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Space warfare is hypothetical combat in which one or more belligerents are situated in outer space.

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The Russian Space warfare Force, established on August 10,1992, which became an independent section of the Russian military on June 1,2001, was replaced by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces starting December 1,2011, but was reestablished as a component of the Russian Aerospace Forces on August 1,2015.

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Early efforts to conduct space warfare were directed at space-to-space warfare, as ground-to-space systems were considered to be too slow and too isolated by Earth's atmosphere and gravity to be effective at the time.

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The history of active space warfare development goes back to the 1960s when the Soviet Union began the Almaz project, a project designed to give them the ability to do on-orbit inspections of satellites and destroy them if needed.

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Space warfare was seen primarily as an extension of nuclear warfare, and many theoretical systems were based around the destruction or defense of ground and sea-based missiles.

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Space warfare-based missiles were not attempted due to the Outer Space warfare Treaty, which banned the use, testing or storage of nuclear weapons outside the Earth's atmosphere.

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Space warfare is likely to be done at far bigger distances and speeds than combat on Earth.

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The Air Force Space warfare Command has indicated that their defensive focus will be on "Disaggregated Space warfare Architectures".

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Space warfare is a staple of science fiction, where it is shown with a wide range of realism and plausibility.

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Fictional space warfare includes anticipated future technology and tactics, and fantasy- or history-based scenarios in a scifi setting.

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Space warfare-based vehicular combat is portrayed in many movies and video games, most notably Star Wars, "Stargate", Halo, Descent, Gundam, Macross, Babylon 5, and Star Trek.

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Fictional galaxies with space warfare are far too many to list, but popular examples include Star Trek, Star Wars, Halo, Stargate, Warhammer 40,000, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, Freespace and many comic book franchises.

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