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It was replaced because the USSR managed to shoot one down. Spy satellites are as of yet off limits.
by expedition32 10mo ago
It was replaced because the USSR managed to shoot one down.
Spy satellites are as of yet off limits.
- SAI_Peregrinus 10mo agoAnti-satellite weapons have been demonstrated by the US, USSR, Russia, China, India, and if you stretch a bit Israel (they shot down a Houthi missile while it was above the Kármán line, the same system is probably capable of use as true anti-satellite weapon). Nobody has shot down anyone else's spy satellites, but it's not because it's impossible.
- jbn 10mo agois there a reference for the USSR shooting an SR-71 down?
- aggregator-ios 10mo agoThere is no reference for this, because it never happened.
- snowwrestler 10mo agoI think you might be misremembering the shoot-down of a U2 plane, which was also a U.S. spy plane operating around the same time.
- kevin_thibedeau 10mo ago> was U2 is still in operation.