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Well that's all good for the cables connecting USA and China but what about cables elsewhere? I guess in such a situation you wouldn't want you opponent to have
by rusk 7y ago
Well that's all good for the cables connecting USA and China but what about cables elsewhere? I guess in such a situation you wouldn't want you opponent to have control of critical infrastructure.
- azernik 7y agoGP means that cables connecting enemy territories would be cut by submarines, not just that cables connecting warring parties would be cut at landfall.
- walshemj 7y agoor drop a PGM on the landing points / supporting infrastructure
- bilbo0s 7y agoUm... I don't think you're thinking like a military person. I mean, if it's total war? Well, sorry, but it's total war. I wouldn't count on too many undersea cables not being cut.
- Joakal 7y agoTotal war means nukes. There will be sore losers.
- tuesdayrain 7y agoIf countries start firing nukes then I would be surprised if there were any winners.
- onlydeadheroes 7y agoYes, the humans.
- rusk 7y agoI'd have thought carbon based life in general might be worse off ...
- amelius 7y agoI hope that countries have the protocols in place for prioritized satellite communication.
- merpnderp 7y agoI imagine within hours of a total war, space will become a highly militarized battlefield with kinetic and laser weapons knocking just about everything down as fast as it is put up.
- mullingitover 7y agoTelecom satellites would be getting shot down in the first week, too.
- bigiain 7y agoElon's new constellation must be making for some fun plannig for those people. 60 new targets now, several hundred more new targets real soon now. I wonder if SpaceX and Blue Origin are launching payloads they're designed to shoot down their own payloads?
- v-yadli 7y agoI assume sending up a comsat is more expensive than sending up explosive to destroy it.
- bigiain 7y agoPossibly. It's not like the military-industrial complex is known for it's cost-effective solutions though... Given the manoeuvring requirements for the orbiting explosives, and the requirement to launch them with enough plausible deniability for it not to be obvious "there's a bunch of commercial satellite killers!" - I wonder if they could build and launch 60 of them for less than SpaceX paid to get the first 60 Starlink birds in orbit?
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- discordance 7y agoWe need less people thinking like military people in the world. Too many toy soldier fantasies result in leaders like George Bush jr fulfilling their fathers dreams.
- A2017U1 7y agoArmchair soldiers who have watched to many movies, the world is full of them. A China-US conflict means dozens of nuclear weapons dropped on populous cities across the world in a matter of hours. How anyone seriously entertains this idea is unreal.