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'Golden Dome' Is Impossible–and It'll Make Defense Companies a Ton of Money
- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
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- anovikov 2y agoBrilliant Pebbles-like system will be absurdly easy to build now (it was borderline technically feasible 40 years ago already) and unlike in the 1980s, there is a ready way to put it into orbit - in much bigger quantities than Reagan could ever dream of, and they themselves can be a lot lighter. And the world has way fewer ballistic missiles today. From guidance perspective there is nothing easier than a boost phase intercept because on a boost phase, a missile is easy to see, and no countermeasures can probably confuse it. From a ballistic perspective it is the hardest intercept mode, but not if we start in the orbit. Total mass of a working system that will protect against an attack from any country but Russia, and will protect against second strike from Russia - that is, will enable first strike against it but not protect against it's first strike - will be trivial and a lot lower than current orbiting mass of Starlink system. It won't even require Starship to launch it. With Starship online, ballistic missile arsenal of all countries will become entirely worthless.