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You come across as fairly confrontational. But I don’t understand the point. Satellites already fly indefinitely and can drop payloads of kinetic energy weapon
by brookst 2y ago
You come across as fairly confrontational.
But I don’t understand the point. Satellites already fly indefinitely and can drop payloads of kinetic energy weapons. Why all the complexity of VLEO and drones? What could you that’s impossible with other, simpler, already-extant weapons systems?
- uSoldering 2y agoI am voicing my opinion in which I believe in strongly, nothing more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
- BalloonsInVLEO 2y agoWe already have fully autonomous space drone swarms armed with nuclear warheads, we just keep them underground/underwater because...humans are weird.
- rsynnott 2y agoI mean... okay, but no matter how much you believe in it, it doesn't make any sense. This would offer no advantage over conventional satellites for this application (ie it would be similarly terrible for it). Are you thinking of something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#2003_United_States_Air_Force_proposal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#2003_Unite... Again, you probably wouldn't bother with VLEO for that, too much extra complexity with no obvious advantage vs VLEO.
- zardo 2y ago> Why all the complexity of VLEO and drones? What could you that’s impossible with other, simpler, already-extant weapons systems? Assuming the tech works, you can move the sat to any orbital plane, making it significantly harder for an adversary to track all of your vleo assets.