The Russian Federation has questions about the X-37B space drone
Moscow. November 16. INTERFAX - The United States is pursuing a course on the use of space for conducting combat operations, testing the latest shock-fighting equipment, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.
"As you know, the American reusable unmanned space shuttle X-37B, capable of being in orbit for a long time, performing maneuvers and carrying a payload, also has the potential to use weapons in space. Our requests to the American side regarding clarification of specific goals and objectives that are being worked out on the X-37B platform as part of its current mission remain unanswered," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a comment on a number of aspects of space activities of Russia and other states.
"Washington, without any prior notification, is testing in orbit the latest strike-combat weapons of various types, including with the destruction of its spacecraft. So, on February 20, 2008, the SM-3 anti-missile was used to destroy the American satellite "USA-193". We also note the testing of anti-satellite weapons carried out by the Pentagon in the 1980s on the platform of the F-15A aircraft," the commentary says, the text of which is posted on the agency's website.
The Foreign Ministry recalls that "since the 1950s, the United States has been steadily pursuing a policy of using outer space for combat operations and deploying strike weapons systems in it in order to achieve military superiority, up to the achievement of total domination in space. The relevant tasks are fixed in the updated "Defense Space Strategy" and the doctrinal document of the US Space Forces."
