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It's alarming and irresponsible for any country to perform an anti-satellite missile test but there is a level of hypocrisy from the countries condemning - some

It's alarming and irresponsible for any country to perform an anti-satellite missile test but there is a level of hypocrisy from the countries condemning - some of whom have also conducted such tests in the past; China as recently as 2007, the US has done so a number of times historically and as recently as 2008 and India most recently in 2019. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Shakti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Shakti

bryanlarsen 5y ago
The 2008 American and the Indian tests were done at a low altitude where they didn't affect any satellites and fragments deorbited quickly. Not comparable at all. The American test in the 80s was comparable.
- baybal2 5y ago
  And that's the point, they are testing a missile against targets at much higher orbits. 14A042 is pretty enormous for a mobile missile. They are aiming to take out US missile target discrimination system, the weakest link in the new US missile defence system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Tracking_and_Surveillance_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Tracking_and_Surveilla... Without target discrimination, the missile defence will be completely exhausted by decoys.