space war
Celestial armed combat
Space war refers to armed conflict conducted in outer space or involving space-based assets—satellites, weapons systems, or spacecraft.
The term covers both actual military operations targeting orbital infrastructure and hypothetical future combat between spacefaring forces.
It also describes a genre of science fiction and video games featuring interstellar battles: The kids spent hours playing space war games.
- starshipFictional interstellar vessel
- battle stationArmed defensive post
- laserConcentrated light device
- laser cannonWeapon firing focused light
- ray gunFictional beam-emitting weapon
fleet · star fleet · fighter squadron · orbital · alien · invasion · galactic · battlecruiser · missile · dogfight · asteroid · shield · force field · plasma · torpedo · destroyer · nebula · warp drive
- sci-fi warsalien invasion, invasion fleet, planetary defense
- space fictionscience fiction, spaceship, sci-fi, astronaut, spacecraft
space warground war
Armed conflict on terrain
conventional warfare · ground combat · naval warfare · trench warfare · air war
space, war, spaces, spaced, spacing, spacious, spaciousness, wars, warred