Israel to develop offensive space weapons to strike targets on Earth | The Jerusalem Post
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Defense Minister Israel Katz said space capabilities would provide the IDF with an advantage in future conflicts as Israel seeks to become a leading space power.
    • Onsotumenh@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      We’re Jews out in space
      We’re zooming along protecting the Hebrew race
      We’re Jews out in space
      If trouble appears we put it right back in its place

      When goyim attack us
      We give 'em a smack
      We’ll slap them right back in the face

    • DarkwingDuck@sh.itjust.worksBannedEnglish
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      2 months ago

      When they say they are planning to develop them, what they mean is that they are planning to make their existence public. You should assume Jewish Space Lasers are literally a thing today.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Nope, a space laser is a stupid weapon.

        A system of kinetic impactors would be far more practical.

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          2 months ago

          To be fair the article says “Space Weapons”, not necessarily lasers, so something stupid and destructive like dropping some kinda mass payload from low orbit would also count.

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

    And here I was, thinking the Jewish space lasers are just a silly conspiracy.

    When have conspiracy theories turned into trailers?

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mlEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    They need to be able to orbitally bombard Palestinian schoolchildren - matter of national security

      • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Netanyahu: “I will go to the last place not corrupted by living journalists general concern for human rights brown people Hamas anti-semitism - *giggles* - SPAAAACE!”

        *vaporizes a hospital from orbit*

  • ranzispa@mander.xyzEnglish
    32·
    2 months ago

    I thought there were agreements regarding the fact that weapons should not be deployed to space.

    • mobyduck648@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      From what I understand it’s only WMDs that are internationally banned from space, while obviously a rather distasteful thing to do it’s not unlawful to put conventional weapons in space. The Soviets armed some of their space stations with autocannon for example, which isn’t even the best example of their space programme making Bond villains everywhere look like complete scrubs.

    • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      No one was ever going to respect such an agreement. This stuff has been in the works for a while. Russia looks like it’s testing out it’s own satelite killing tech as we speak as well.

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Capable of targeting a specific orphan at a specific hospital and obliterating the whole fucking thing from high earth orbit.

    • zbyte64English
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      2 months ago

      Isreal trying their best to prove the antisemites are right

  • Phantom_Feline17@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    Just when you thought they couldn’t get evil enough, now we have literal Saturday morning cartoon villain levels of evil!

  • Mika@piefed.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This will result in the station getting blown and a lot of space debrees. I don’t think it is gonna be a good tool, USA already had Rods from God idea and it wasn’t implemented cause the cost/effect is questionable.