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From: sobek@iwpba.UUCP (sobek)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: re: space marines as ASATs - (nf)
Message-ID: <172@iwpba.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 20:20:28 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 23 20:20:28 1984
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lt. of marines at trsvax!cozadde states:

>Since the Soviet Communist
>Party has developed, tested and deployed their own ASAT system two
>years ago, they have (to the best of my knowledge) damage or destroyed
>3-4 of our satellites.  They used their own ASAT on their own satellites
>but tested their proto-type particle beam weapon on a few of our satel-
>lites.  So for keeping ASATs out of space, you are two years too late.

Nothing else that I have read or heard suggests that the USSR has done
more than test an ASAT system, at the same time that the US was doing
development work on ours.  That the Soviets have deployed a functioning
ASAT system and used their weapons on our satellites is alarming, to say
the least, if true.

Please supply references for your statements.

						Steve Sobek
						ihnp4!iwpba!sobek