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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use)
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:51:12 GMT
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- In <1993Jan04.205508.23361@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:
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- >Not to mention the EMP problems you'd cause for commercial sats and (possibly)
- >electronics on the ground.... It would be bad.
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- Not necessarily. At least, not if you plan for it.
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- Consider this scenario. You have a battle fleet somewhere in the
- Pacific Ocean. Your enemy has a battle fleet somewhere in the
- Pacific Ocean. Both fleets are looking for one another. Your
- enemy also has a satellite, which will pass overhead shortly,
- telling him exactly where you are.
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- Shortly before the satellite gets within detection range of
- your fleet, you launch an SLBM, taking out your enemy's nice,
- new, expensive satellite. Both fleets get hit by EMP, but you
- are prepared because you know it's coming. Your enemy isn't
- expecting it. Worse, he has all his planes sitting out, exposed,
- on the flight deck, waiting to launch when the satellite gives
- him targeting information. If you're lucky, you've taken out
- all his AEW. This puts you in a very good position....
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