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I may be underestimating our adversaries but I’d imagine we know exactly where all of their satellites are at all times and could just wait to pull it out until

• dogma1138 5y ago
  That’s about right, also Russia only has 2 high high resolution recon satellites in orbit right now https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(satellite) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(satellite) The previous generation Kobalt ones have been retired since 2015 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantar-4K2M https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantar-4K2M China has quite a few Yaogan optical satellites in orbit but they are much smaller than the Russian and US ones and are about the same size as commercial EOSs and thus much more limited. China does launch a fuckton of them tho often 3-4 at the time on a single rocket however I would bet that their military usefulness at this level of detail is rather limited. They are probably around the same class as the Israeli satellites which means that they’ll be sufficient for strategic intelligence about facilities and large developments but won’t have anywhere near the resolution that the space telescopes pointed downwards class satellites have.