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CAESAR and MAJIIC
This NATO project has had two incarnations.
In 1995, a few NATO members began integrating their armed forces’ to use air-based Synthetic Aperture Radar and Ground Moving Target Indicators for TMD applications. By 1999, Canada had officially joined and was rendering unto CAESAR, the world’s only space-based system with these capabilities, a Canadian satellite called RADARSAT-2.
Several NATO-led war games using simulated data from this satellite have readied our allies for the day when they’ll use this Canadian asset. They’re practising to use RADARSAT data in first-strike, premptive attacks against alleged missile launchers. These are called TMD’s “counterforce operations.”
A government document from 1998-1999, shows that exploiting our satellite data for TMD’s pre-emptive attacks was developed by Canadian government scientists working in close collaboration with the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization, now called the Missile Defense Agency.
CAESAR has now been succeeded by MAJIIC, a Canadian war game in Alberta this June, was the likely venue of the latest MAJIIC test.
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Hunter 2001: RADARSAT in a TMD War Game