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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: DoD launcher use
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.202219.2063@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 20:22:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec13.183545.9958@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec13.212814.14887@iti.org> <1992Dec14.144135.14439@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec14.221347.3359@iti.org>,<1992Dec16.092029.27518@ke4zv.uucp>
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- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
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- In article <1992Dec16.092029.27518@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
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- >aircraft is low and the cost is much less. The military, like everyone
- >else has to pay attention to costs, even if their threshold is higher
- >than most other users. Wars can be lost by simply running out of money
- >as surely as losing on the battlefield
-
- Then, gary goes on to say...
-
- >. With a serious opponent, your space assets would be priority targets.
-
- So, uh, gary, where are the serious opponents supposed to afford A-SATs? hmm?
-
- If you can kill recon planes, it's damn sight harder to kill sats.
-
- Furthermore, you assumed that the KH-11 is the benchmark (also known as
- the Szabo yardstick) without the resultant drop in costs which would occur if
- you could rapidly deliver sats to orbit.
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- You don't have to add lots of fuel, thrusters, and other sensors, treat the
- camera and sat as a throw-away item.
-
- doug
-
- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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