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Most of this comment is untrue & unnecessarily hyperbolic. This is an updating of the old Soviet FOBS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardm
by hash872 5y ago
Most of this comment is untrue & unnecessarily hyperbolic. This is an updating of the old Soviet FOBS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment...) with a glider, not a brand new technology and definitely not a 'Sputnik moment'.
'If China parks a bunch of these in space it would mean that any US naval task force or ground force anywhere in the world is now at risk'
No, there is absolutely no indication that FOBS is even close to being that accurate. Past experiments by the Soviets regularly missed their targets by dozens of miles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment_System#End_of_deployment_and_associated_reasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment...
- randomopining 5y agoThis one missed by 24 miles. There’s only like 11 carriers. What if they shoot 5 nuclear ones at one carrier group?