The American private space company SpaceX will put into orbit offensive weapons for the US government, if it asks for it. This statement was made by the chief executive officer of the corporation Gwynn Schottwell, reports Radio. Freedom with reference to the edition of Defense One.
Currently, the US Department of Defense is developing new technologies that would allow monitoring of Russian and North Korean missiles, as well as exploring the possibility of creating a directional orbital weapon, such as space lasers and beam weapons designed to destroy missiles in flight.
The Deputy Minister of Defense for Research and Engineering, General Michael Griffin, said that he would like by 2023 to create in space a network of interceptors to counter hypersonic weapons of Russia and China.