This is yet another one of those headlines that snuck up and took me by surprise. Back in 2015, even before Donald Trump stood up the American Space Force, Russia unveiled its own branch of the military for similar purposes, known as the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS). So what is the VKS up to these days? Developing and launching hunter-killer satellites into orbit? Searching for extraterrestrials? Perhaps some of them are, but not all of them. In fact, a bunch of them have now been deployed to the Kursk Oblast to fight off Ukraine’s surprisingly persistent incursion. Russia is claiming that the temporary transfer was required to deal with an unexpected manpower shortage in the region. Even some of the servicemen previously assigned to a Russian spaceport have been transferred to the front and put on infantry duty. I suppose all truly is fair in love and war. (Newsweek)
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