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Scott Kenny said:
My image for the "new orbital ASAT" is a pop-down attack pattern. ASAT gets placed in a slightly higher orbit so that the collision energy is all aimed towards earth.
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If your opponent has hundreds of satellites, which is exactly what the U.S. is doing in the next several years, you can not just kill satellites: you have to destroy entire orbital planes. And you have to accept what the other side does to you.
 
Josh_TN said:
If your opponent has hundreds of satellites, which is exactly what the U.S. is doing in the next several years, you can not just kill satellites: you have to destroy entire orbital planes. And you have to accept what the other side does to you.
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Yes, Starlink etc constellations need that much force.

And you just pissed off everyone else who was using that orbital plane, turning them against you.
 
Forest Green said:
www.twz.com

More SM-3 Interceptors Needed After Downing Iranian Ballistic Missiles: Navy Secretary

After SM-3 successfully engaged Iranian ballistic missiles, the Navy Secretary says more are needed than the dozen per year currently planned.
www.twz.com www.twz.com
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Well, yeah. 12 per year or so is enough to build up a stockpile if you never shoot any.

But now you have idiots making you use them up. Probably need to go to about 48 a year, so you can use up 24-36 a year and still build up the stockpile.
 

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