Is THIS the nuke Putin will launch into space amid fears Vlad plans to fire the satellite-destroying 'Cosmos 2543'

A BOMBSHELL warning from US intelligence suggests Russia could be planning to launch a satellite-destroying weapon armed with a nuclear bomb into space.

Crazy despot Putin has already tested orbital weapons designed for destroying Western equipment – such as the anti-satellite weapon, Cosmos 2543.

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While the weapon was not armed with a nuclear bomb for launch in 2020 – there are fears that future versions of similar technology could take the next step, amid the US's chilling warning to the West.

Russian Cosmos 2543 launches projectiles into space at incredible speed – like rockets that could destroy crucial Western equipment orbiting the Earth.

On July 15, 2020, Cosmos 2543 fired from its mothership, Cosmos 2542, launching a projectile object into the ether at an incredible speed of 400 miles per hour.

The Russian spacecraft was also spotted around the Pentagon's spy satellite earlier that same year.

A congressional aide said yesterday that he believes the weapon warned in Wednesday's intelligence letter could be a Russian anti-satellite device such as the Cosmos 2543.

If the report's warning refers to the same dangerous kit, it could pose a serious threat to the West as crucial satellites orbiting space collect billions of bytes of data every hour.

Vital communications networks and military systems responsible for monitoring planet Earth would be compromised.

It would also compromise electricity grids and banking systems, creating chaos.

And Vlad's Foreign Ministry has made disturbing threats in the past about attacking Western satellites in space.

President Joe Biden called the threat “serious” and the White House has clamped down on intelligence to prevent widespread panic.

But officials have been monitoring the “threat to national security” amid rising global tensions and fears of a third world war stemming from Russia's grueling war in Ukraine.

Russia has done that too accused the West of using key space equipment to support Ukraine in combat attacks – and in following their troops.

Thanks to secrecy surrounding Russian weapons, it is not entirely clear whether the projectiles shot from Cosmos 2543 would be nuclear missiles.

Dr. Malcolm Davis, senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said The Telegraph: “If Russia has committed itself nuclear weapons in orbit, that would be a deliberate and direct violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty by Moscow.

“The Outer Space Treaty is a cornerstone of stability in space, and this would be a serious setback for international arms control.”

Russia has claimed the spacecraft is just an observer satellite, but the stalking of the US spy satellite in 2020 alarmed intelligence chiefs.

America called it a test launch of space weapons, making nonsense of claims that Russian space technology was simply 'inspecting' other satellites.

General John Raymond, chief of space operations for the US Space Force, said at the time: 'We consider this behavior to be unusual and troubling.

“It has the potential to create a dangerous situation in space.”

Kremlin friend Sergei Ryabkov dismissed yesterday's reports as “malicious fabrications” and Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it “yet another trick” by the White House.

In 2020 Russia space organization ROSCOSMOS confirmed that the satellite was launched by a Soyuz-2 rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, a sprawling launch site about 500 miles north of Moscow.

But they insisted it was simply “inspecting one of the national satellites at close range using special equipment”.

The prospect of conflict in space is becoming increasingly likely Russia and China both have space weapons that would seriously harm us if it were used in response to rising global tensions.

Putin's nuclear arsenal is also a growing concern for the West, as Russia has the most nuclear warheads in the world.

As NATO prepares for a possible global war fueled in part by Mad Vlad's thirst for world domination – Russia continues to conduct nuclear missile exercises causing fear all over the world.

And there is nothing to suggest that its nuclear arsenal could not be combined with space weapons to augment weapons of mass destruction.

Just last year they tested an intercontinental ballistic missile in the north Russia which would cause an explosion 100 times more powerful than the one on Hiroshima.

Republican Mike Turner, head of the House Intelligence Committee, announced the worrying new development on Wednesday, but did not say it involved nuclear weapons.

But he called on Biden to share the information with the public, and other sources described it as “very concerning and highly sensitive,” reports said. ABC.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said at a press conference this week, “Americans understand that there are a range of threats and challenges in the world that we face every day.

“I am confident that President Biden, in the decisions he makes, will ensure the safety of the American people.”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson added: “We will work together to address this issue, just as we do with all sensitive matters that are classified.

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