{"id":3590,"date":"2019-02-04T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2019-02-04T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:58:49","slug":"drones-equipados-con-laser-y-satelites-como-plataformas-armadas-para-interceptar-misiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=3590","title":{"rendered":"Drones equipados con l\u00e1ser y sat\u00e9lites como plataformas armadas para interceptar misiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/u>En el marco de la Revisi\u00f3n de la Defensa Misil\u00edstica de EUA, el Pent\u00e1gono est\u00e1 estudiando diferentes opciones tales como la instalaci\u00f3n de Armas de Energ\u00eda Directa (Particularmente L\u00e1ser) en Drones, as\u00ed como Sistemas de Defensa Misil\u00edstica que empleen sat\u00e9lites como plataforma de lanzamiento, a fin de optimizar las capacidades de protecci\u00f3n antimisiles, frente a la amenaza de Rusia y China.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 The long-delayed\u00a0Missile Defense Review, which will be formally introduced by President Donald Trump at the Pentagon on Thursday, will call for research and investments to ensure America\u2019s security for the next several decades: laser technology, the F-35 as an ICBM killer, and potentially putting interceptors in space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump will roll out the report at 11 a.m. Thursday as part of his third visit to the Pentagon since taking office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Expected to attend the rollout is a who\u2019s who of national security officials, including vice president Mike Pence, national security adviser John Bolton; Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan; Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson; Army Secretary Mark Esper; Pentagon policy head John Rood; Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord; Pentagon technology head Mike Griffin; and Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio, a\u00a0leading advocate\u00a0for missile defense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A senior administration official, speaking to reporters ahead of the report\u2019s release, confirmed a number of new technologies that Defense News has learned are highlighted in the report. The official told reporters that overall, the review looks at \u201cthe comprehensive environment the United States faces, and our allies and partners face. It does posture forces to be prepared for capabilities that currently exist and that we anticipate in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s been a long road for the MDR to finally emerge. Pentagon officials originally said the document would be released in late 2017 \u2014 then February, then mid-May and then late in the summer. In September, Rood, who as undersecretary of defense for policy is the point man for the MDR, indicated the report could come out in a matter of weeks. And in October, Shanahan, then the deputy secretary of defense, said the document had been done \u201cfor some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There is also widespread speculation in the missile defense community that the review has been delayed, at least in part, because of the warmed relations between the Trump administration and North Korea. Notably, the mid-May time frame for release, which was floated by Shanahan in April, lined up President Donald Trump\u2019s planned meeting in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. While that meeting was canceled and then eventually happened in June, there was a sense the Pentagon did not want to do anything that could jeopardize those talks, such as releasing a report discussing how the U.S. could counter North Korean capabilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ironically, Trump will be rolling the report out just hours before a high-level North Korean delegation is expected to arrive in Washington for talks with the administration. However, Sung-Yoon Lee, a Korean expert with Tufts University\u2018s Fletcher School, doesn\u2019t expect that to impact any negotiations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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