{"id":689346,"date":"2026-10-19T20:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=689346"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:57:53","slug":"inside-russias-cosmos-2612-operation-did-kremlin-scrap-planned-attack-on-key-u-s-radar-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=689346","title":{"rendered":"Inside Russia&#8217;s Cosmos 2612 operation: Did Kremlin scrap planned attack on key U.S. radar satellite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space analysts and national security insiders believe the Russian satellite Cosmos 2612 likely intended to attack a key U.S. radar satellite in what would have been the first instance of warfare in orbit, but that the Kremlin may have called off the operation at the 11th hour.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/10\/16\/shutterstock_2105252999_s1440x773.jpg?57ce7d51b446f0798338dc1c54eb80433cc91303\" title=\"Inside Russia&apos;s Cosmos 2612 operation: Did Kremlin scrap planned attack on key U.S. radar satellite?\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space analysts and national security insiders believe the Russian satellite Cosmos 2612 likely intended to attack a key U.S. radar satellite in what would have been the first instance of warfare in orbit, but that the Kremlin may have called off the operation at the 11th hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}