Prospects of Military Space Industry

... limited to ground-based interceptors – essentially the same old “very high-reaching anti-aircraft guns”. Projects to create a space-based ABM component enjoyed a revival in the mid-2000s but have not yet resulted in anything tangible. The state of anti-satellite weapons is equally lamentable: Russia and the U.S. are still working with developments from the 1970s, whereas China in 2007 tested a first-generation system. The fact that the superpowers have put their space missile programs on ice indicates that they hardly have the technology required ...