COINCIDENCES FROM 1979 TWO MOVIES STARRING JAMES BOND ACTORS WITH SPACE WEAPONS

29 JUNE 1979 release date

MOONRAKER starring Roger Moore as James Bond.

19 OCTOBER 1979 release date

METEOR starring Sean Connery a former James Bond. 

The shuttle can be clearly seen here behind Karl Malden.

The true star of both of these movies was the space shuttle. In the movie METEOR the role was more subliminal. The shuttle appears in artwork in an early scene. The space shuttle was a weapon system hidden in plain sight. It was built to service two satellites - the KH-9 (orbital bombardment system) and the KH-11 (Space Based Laser). The interesting thing about "METEOR" is that it features an orbital bombardment system. One way to cloak a sneak attack from orbit is to hide your warheads in a meteor shower. So, we believe that both of these movies were meant to send a chilling message to the Soviets. 

The Soviets knew the Shuttle was a weapons system and protested its deployment. This article by "James Oberg", a pseudonym for a CIA spook lampooned Soviet claims about the Space Shuttle & attempted to gaslight them as paranoid.   

This article from Mechanix Illustrated 16 years prior to the movies released, claimed the US would have a deployable laser weapon by 1971. 

https://thearea51blog.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-miracle-light-beam-from-mechanix.html