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To: fireman15
“Stopping hypersonic missiles is a matter of localized military hardware and physics.”

That is an interesting comment.

I would have thought detecting the future launch of ICBMs might be the job of satellites over one continent which would then flash a signal to tracking stations elsewhere and the activation of defensive interceptors at sea or on yet a different continent; sort of an integrated system.

But you say stopping 10,000 hypersonic missiles simultaneously “is a matter of localized military hardware.”

And vacuum tubes, I suppose.

22 posted on 07/17/2026 10:24:28 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem
And vacuum tubes, I suppose.

Oh, give me a break!!! Of course, real-time radar and satellite imagery are important components, but they have zero to do with commercial data centers. With hypersonic missile defense, latency is everything. There is absolutely no time to route data to an external AI database and wait for cloud compute capabilities to have even the slightest effect. But please tell me more.

24 posted on 07/17/2026 10:42:10 AM PDT by fireman15
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