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> Then, if someone starts jamming/blinding your satellites, you will pick up the phone, call them, and tell them that doing so is an act of war and if they do n
by dragontamer 5y ago
> Then, if someone starts jamming/blinding your satellites, you will pick up the phone, call them, and tell them that doing so is an act of war and if they do not stop you will have to sink their ships now, while you still know where they are, instead of waiting long enough to kindly let them wander far enough from their last known positions to be able to evade strikes.
We're already at this point. Now what?
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43328/u-s-satellites-are-being-attacked-everyday-according-to-space-force-general https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43328/u-s-satellites-a...
> U.S. Space Force's General David Thompson, the service's second in command, said last week that Russia and China are launching "reversible attacks," such as electronic warfare jamming, temporarily blinding optics with lasers, and cyber attacks, on U.S. satellites "every single day." He also disclosed that a small Russian satellite used to conduct an on-orbit anti-satellite weapon test back in 2019 had first gotten so close to an American one that there were concerns an actual attack was imminent.
China and Russia have _ALREADY_ begun to live-test satellite jamming / satellite blinding weapons on live US satellites.
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Those satellites are going to be obliterated as soon as China or Russia actually gives a damn. Russia is testing anti-satellite missiles. Etc. etc. They're already well within the capabilities to blow up every single US satellite should they so desire!