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Meanwhile SpaceX is convinced that all it takes to catastrophically destroy a Falcon 9 is a single round fired from a mile away: https://arstechnica.com/space/2

• jvanderbot 1y ago
  I don't see why a drop ship needs to be all that sophisticated. A parachute and some shipping crates and send the rocket home from orbit, don't risk it.
• neilv 1y ago
  I was about to post: > Why would you do any of that if you could deliver 300,000 pounds on a Starship anywhere in the world in an hour? How much does it cost to destroy that vehicle and its 300,000 pounds of cargo before it lands?
  • joezydeco 1y ago
    That slow moving vehicle...
    • cptaj 1y ago
      Massive, shiny and slow
      • 1oooqooq 1y ago
        well, maybe it could deliver 200k pounds of gear while carrying 100k pounds of counter measures? but again, the original plan was always good enough for humans dropping slowly on parachutes
  • TMWNN 1y ago
    Cargo aircraft like the C5 Galaxy the author mentioned are also vulnerable to antiaircraft fire, including when they approach.
  • Aeolun 1y ago
    Starship pretty much just falls out of they sky though. There’s a lot less time to destroy one than a similar aircraft.
    • tim333 1y ago
      In Ukraine both sides seem to be able to fairly easily destroy any target that is visible to the eye by firing a surface to air missile at it. Starship landing is pretty visible and not really faster than a jet over the final mile.
• faitswulff 1y ago
  Meh, dropping actual human troops anywhere is largely romanticized. I'd bet on orbital drones, myself.
• aaron695 1y ago
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