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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.165523.11040@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <1992Dec17.110426.8596@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec17.1 <1992Dec21.164114.1@fnala.fnal.gov> <1992Dec24.022440.27944@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725665121@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:55:23 GMT
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- In article <ewright.725665121@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <1992Dec24.022440.27944@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >
- >>Only the US and the former USSR have demonstrated knocking out orbital
- >>satellites. Those other nations have the ability to achieve precision
- >>orbits, so they should be able to do the same, but they haven't attempted
- >>to do so.
- >
- >Achieving a precise orbit is not necessary to knock out a low-orbit
- >satellite. All of the nuclear powers have ballistic missiles capable
- >of lofting a warhead to orbital altitude, if not into orbit. Detonating
- >a small nuke in the general vicinity of a satellite, at the right
- >altitude, would do the job.
-
- Technically possible, but militarily dangerous. You've just escalated
- a brushfire conventional war into a nuclear exchange.
-
- Gary
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