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Given all the launches accredited to SDI (and whatever it is named now) over the last 3+ decades it would be quite amazing if not one of them was a weapon test.
by hindsightbias 6y ago
Given all the launches accredited to SDI (and whatever it is named now) over the last 3+ decades it would be quite amazing if not one of them was a weapon test.
Just what have they done with all that star wars budget if they were lofting flowers in muzzles?
- ceejayoz 6y ago> Just what have they done with all that star wars budget if they were lofting flowers in muzzles? Failing to produce much of use, mostly. It's hardly the first unproductive R&D program in our history. That said, there were absolutely weapons tests as part of SDI; they were just ground-to-space (and eventually turned into the current ABM programs). There were also space-based sensor systems - radars etc. There's no evidence I'm aware of of any US space-to-space weaponry having made it into actual testing.