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> You don’t maintain your own ultra expensive space industry for any other reason. Except the kind of rockets they've been designing would make for terrible IC
by Voultapher 2y ago
> You don’t maintain your own ultra expensive space industry for any other reason.
Except the kind of rockets they've been designing would make for terrible ICBMs. Take for example the recent H3 a hydrogen powered booster. For weapons you want solid or maybe hypergolic propellants that can be stored and ready to fire for long time periods. Liquid hydrogen would be an awful choice for that.
- ein0p 2y agoYes, but the gap between that and ICBMs is much narrower than between no rockets at all and ICBMs. Japan can’t have ICBMs at all, their armed forces are entirely defense oriented by treaty. So they build what they can, because no treaty lasts forever.