> With the size of Russia's SLBM stockpile, this doesn't seem to change the deterrence equation Status-6 seems like a hedge against the possibility of those SL

> With the size of Russia's SLBM stockpile, this doesn't seem to change the deterrence equation Status-6 seems like a hedge against the possibility of those SLBMs being rendered obsolete by a theorized missile defense program like Brilliant Pebbles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles Brilliant Pebbles called for thousands of satellites in LEO, which was impractical when it was originally proposed. But SpaceX has since demonstrated their ability to launch constellations this large on a relatively small budget.