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And more situational awareness in space. that is, keeping an eye on adversaries and weapons targeting u.s. space assets. the danger for the u.s. is that greater dependence on space equals greater vulnerability to attacks in space. >> when you're at the top, the target's on your back. everybody shooting for you. >> china is launching kidnapper satellites with grappling arms capable of plucking satellites out of orbit. russia is dough employing kamikaze satellites, capable of ramming and destroying u.s. space assets. and russia now has a new space weapon, the space force dubs the nesting doll....

Secretary of defense robert mcnamara and dan quayle debating american strength and what we need to do to be safe in the last days of the soviet union. >> we always get in this thing of debunking the capability of the military of the soviet union. let me tell you something, they are proud of their military, invested a lot of money and you know what? it works. >> mr. mcnamara -- >> may i just interrupt one second? we shouldn't debunk the u.s. military. there isn't one single u.s. military commander who believes the abm system around moscow is anything more than a pile of junk. there isn't one of...

Horizontally like the shuttle but has no pilot like the drone. there is no one on the ground piloting it with a joy stick. it can stay airborne, it can service satellites i'm told. air force officials insist this is not a space weapon, jon. jon: that is really wild video. that thing doesn't have a pilot. obviously if you don't have a team of astronauts on board you can launch bigger pay loads and so forth because astronauts require food and water aside from their own body weight you can get a lot more bang for your pw*ubg in what you're sending up into space. >> reporter: that's right, again t...