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@dobby wrote: I was in a discussion group on asymmetrical space warfare a few months ago. Especially in LEO there are several ways that a small nation can damage the supremacy of the big three...
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@Scrub wrote: USAF Space Command has been around for quite awhile now... Read full topic
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@Mister44 wrote: Jeeze. First we reboot Ghostbusters, now Star Wars. Again. Is there anything else we need rob from the 80s? Read full topic
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@wrecksdart wrote: Either Diane Rehm or Tom Ashbrook had a show recently about the book "Ghost Fleet" that made similar points in addition to the use of cyberwar in the 'next' conflict. www.amazon.com...
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@shaddack wrote: A decent asat weapon is an IRBM with conventional explosives and some sand and gravel in the warhead. Put a cloud of space crap into the trajectory of whatever you want to get rid of....
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@ZzyzX wrote: A few more of these and you'll start a cascade leading to the Kessler Syndrome, thereby making any and all spaceflight and its benefits nearly impossible for a long time. Great for...
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@awjt wrote: It could be well under a million dollars a shot: a 747-mounted rail gun could shoot a hard projectile into LEO and blast a satellite. Much more would be spent on the guidance system and...
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@awfulhorrid wrote: Scrub: USAF Space Command has been around for quite awhile now... Yes indeed, they have been - I feel under Space Command when I was in the USAF more than 20 years ago. Somewhere I...
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@Boundegar wrote: You think anybody is going to sell any government a pointy hunk of metal for $5? It costs $10,000 just to fill out the forms to bid on the contract. Read full topic
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@shaddack wrote: ZzyzX: Great for certain fundamentalist/anti-progress/anti-whatever ideologies. Also great to get rid of those spy sats overhead. Too many motivations for that. We need a way to clean...
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@awjt wrote: Not the US of A. I'm talking about North Korea mounting an old repurposed howitzer barrel on an Antonov with 2 of 4 engines functional, and shooting Coors Lites out of it at our...
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@unshaved_weirdo wrote: Mister44: anything else we need rob from the 80s No thanks, I'm good. Read full topic
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@stinkinbadgers wrote: Disappointed this wasn't about: Read full topic
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@dacree wrote: I wish I could remember the name of the book but the general idea was about a company that "mined" the debris field and had an in orbit titanium recycling facility. Collection of small...
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@dave_b wrote: And I was just thinking cubesat with a bb gun built in. Read full topic
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@Dire wrote: There's a treatment for that now. Screenshot 2015-08-11 19.42.08.jpg1512x805 159 KB Read full topic
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@dobby wrote: I think that even at 35k ft and an artillery boost it would still need to be a rocket propelled projectile with rocket or gas jet terminal guidance, remembering you don’t need escape...
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@KathyPadilla wrote: Major Samantha Carter: Navigation?Colonel Jack O'Neill: Check.Major Samantha Carter: Oxygen, pressure, temperature control?Colonel Jack O'Neill: All check.Major Samantha Carter:...
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@GilbertWham wrote: Sounds like something from an Allen Steele novel. Read full topic
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@dacree wrote: GilbertWham: Allen Steele Perhaps but if feels like I read this when I was young. This is going to bug me until I nail it down. Read full topic
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@FirstLast wrote: Well, I hope someone is now regretting the use of their UN veto on the 2008 Treaty on Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force Against...
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@shaddack wrote: Why regretting? This will bring some sweet fat contracts, some nice taxpayer moolah for Raytheon and Boeing and Lockheed. The decisionmakers themselves then can look forward to their...
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@Thebarton_Gamer wrote: It was missing the exclamation point. Read full topic
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