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How does showing you can shoot down other peoples satellites protect your own, when the people who might do it to you dont have many anyway. "If you shoot down
by kenver 18y ago
How does showing you can shoot down other peoples satellites protect your own, when the people who might do it to you dont have many anyway. "If you shoot down our 444, we'll shoot down your 43".
Just seems to me like another obscene waste of money to show you can do something that you would never want to do anyway. Destroying the enemies satellites would more than likely damage your own in the process.
- tjic 18y agoRephrase it this way: "How does demonstrating that we can shoot down 100% of China's spy satellite resources in response to them shooting down 5% of ours deter them from initiating hostilities ?" > Destroying the enemies satellites would more than likely damage your own in the process. You're making assumptions about what percent of our orbital resources are not yet in orbit and are instead bunkered in hardened silos waiting to be deployed. You're assuming that the answer is 0%.
- kenver 18y agoGood point about the bunkers. Would they really initiate a conflict in space knowing they could only shoot down 5% though? Seems to me if you cant take them all in one go then you probably shouldn't bother.
- tjic 18y agoEXACTLY.
- colinplamondon 18y agoI find this whole China versus the United States ridiculous- there is at present a state of mutually assured economic destruction, as real as that which existed with the Soviet Union in terms of nuclear weaponry. No one's bombing the other, no one's invading the other, and no one's blowing the shit of the other's satellites. At most, China will sell their bonds and we will block the import of Chinese goods. Then our economies will real and someone will blink, causing a return to normalcy.
- gaius 18y agoDestroying the enemies satellites would more than likely damage your own in the process. That is, in fact, what the article says, if you read the whole thing.