The United States established the so-called Space Force in the Trump era, and now the US Space Force has taken charge of combat readiness beyond the sky, including the so-called space plane X-37B, according to the US media, X-37B returned to the Kennedy Space Center on the night of November 12 after completing the OTV-6 mission. Like the Space Shuttle, the X-37B can land on airport runways through landing gear, but the X-37B cannot carry astronauts, and the X-37B is much smaller than the Space Shuttle. The United States has made many achievements in space exploration through the large-scale use of the space shuttle, but the space shuttle program has ended, and the United States has returned to the spacecraft program.
The US Space Force X-37B space plane returned to Earth in the dark night, so it seems to be quite mysterious, for the X-37B this 908-day mission in orbit, the US Space Force is "secret", from the X-37B belongs to the US Space Force can be seen, is a military use of reusable spacecraft, the outside world believes that X-37B is a prototype of a space fighter, the current X-37B is used as a space plane, the ultimate purpose is to be used for combat, Therefore, the US Space Force has not released relevant information, and Aviation Vision believes that the US Space Force is to establish new advantages through future space fighters, and is actively conducting various tests and deployments of space aircraft.
Because the X-37B is in orbit, it can reach the target in a very short time to project weapons, and the X-37B successfully returned to Earth after 908 days of operation, proving the reliability of this multi-purpose reusable spacecraft, which has previously flown many on-orbit missions. The X-37B revealed the concept of an orbital bomber, that is, carrying weapons in orbit through repeatable spacecraft, which can be projected when needed, so as to avoid detection by early warning systems, and directly project weapons from orbit, which is more capable of surprise attacks than using ballistic missiles, so that air defense and anti-missile systems can be put into a passive situation.
As with the creation of a ballistic missile defense system, the United States is trying to build new strategic advantages by developing and deploying aerospace fighters, and it is clear that China will not sit idly by. After the United States established a ballistic missile defense system, China also built its own land-based mid-course anti-missile system, according to public information, China has repeatedly conducted land-based mid-course anti-missile technology tests, thus breaking the monopoly position of the United States in the field of ballistic missile defense, China's land-based mid-course anti-missile refers to interception outside the atmosphere, that is, the use of KKV kinetic interceptors to carry out anti-missile strike operations.
Originally, the balance of major powers was based on intercontinental ballistic missiles, the United States broke the balance through the ballistic missile defense system, and then the United States tried to establish a new height of deterrence through space aircraft or space fighters, the same as the development of nuclear weapons, the development of nuclear weapons does not have to be used in actual combat, but to establish deterrence, for this reason China is also in the field of space aircraft, there are currently space aircraft in space operation, so as to break the new strategic advantage of the United States, China to catch up, Without giving the United States the opportunity to deter the world with high-tech equipment, the United States will only be happy for a few years.