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The US, UK, AU, and Russia have been back and forth on leadership relative to some metric or another wrt Over the Horizon systems throughout the post war period
by defrost 3mo ago
The US, UK, AU, and Russia have been back and forth on leadership relative to some metric or another wrt Over the Horizon systems throughout the post war period.
> the world's finest radar and navigation tech
Hadn't realised the UK had a sat nav constellation up (nav tech) and .. are we counting Starlink as radar tech?
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbp3kdJZ1_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbp3kdJZ1_A
- inigyou 3mo agoThere's no chance Starlink doesn't have some extra military payload.
- psd1 3mo agoI think the Starlink weapon is to become indispensable, then to deny service. As we've seen in Ukraine. I could believe that Musk would smuggle a Doom Ray into the satellites, but i don't believe such a weapon exists in the weight and power budget.