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Old October 19th 08, 05:51 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Default Chinese space-to-space missiles

Well, since that posting to all the space newsgroups apparently went
nowhere, let's try it again:

"I've been batting my head against the wall for the past week about this.
Take a look at this photo taken by the XS-1 subsatellite of the front
end of the Shenzhou7 orbital module that is still in orbit and equipped
with its own solar arrays and RCS:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_10152706.htm
Note the six attachments for the things that can separate from it; the
top one being empty, as that's where the XS-1 subsatellite was mounted.
Now note the design for the Soviet DOC-7 Almaz-based space station with
the space-to-space missiles mounted on the front of it:
http://www.ussr-airspace.com/index.p...afce51ed1bcda6
Now note the design of the Chinese first generation space station and
what's on its front end in this painting from the Chinese National Space
Agency: http://www.thespacereview.com/archive/473a.jpg
The thing is a Almaz clone and has the same things mounted on Shenzhou-7
sticking out of its front end.
I tried to write to DARPA about this, but although I could contact DARPA
regarding business opportunities, just contacting them in any other
form is not easy to find on their website.
So I tried to contact Space Command, as this might fall under their area
of responsibility... and I spent half a hour writing a message to them,
went to send it, and had "Sorry there was a problem posting your
message, could you try again?" come up.
So, I was going to send it to Defense Tech... and a couple of days after
I sent it, Defense Tech's mail program says the mail is undeliverable.
So I sent it to "Arms Control Wonk", and I have no reply yet from them.
I also sent it to James Oberg, but he didn't buy my interpretation of
the original Shenzhou-7 "what's-it's" on the front of the orbital
module, and hasn't replied yet to the artwork of the Almaz-clone station
from CNSA.
So, if someone out there in newsgroup land could actually tell someone
in the US intelligence community that they might want to have a peek at
all this, I wouldn't feel like that radar operator up on the mountain in
Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941 telling headquarters that they
don't really look like a group of B-17s flying in from the mainland to me.

Pat"


 




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