and beat the Seahawks advancing to the Divisional Around where they will go up against the Cowboys. The Cowboys will drop this game, just like they did the last time the two teams played in the playoffs and the Vikings will advance to the NFC Championship Game for the first time since 2009. And of course, the Vikings will come up against the Packers. Needing to win in Green Bay in January in order to become the first team to play the Super Bowl in their home stadium will prove to be too much for the 2017 Vikings and their season will end one game short of where we all want it to. The Packers will go on to face the Patriots in the Super Bowl, and theMiG-31BM carrying an ASAT launch vehicle. (credit: ShipSash Burevestnik: a Russian air-launched anti-satellite system

In September 2018, an aircraft photographer noticed something interesting while observing activity at the Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky near Moscow, sometimes called the “Russian Edwards Air Force Base.” What caught his attention was a MiG-31BM fighter jet with a large black missile suspended under its belly. While this specific aircraft had been seen before, the rocket was new. The pictures he posted on the Internet baffled observers: it seemed to be too big to be an air-to-air or an air-to-surface missile. It did appear to be the right size for an anti-satellite weapon. The pictures brought back memories of a Soviet-era ASAT project called Kontakt, which comprised the MiG-31D aircraft and a missile