To: Sandreckoner
If China has succeeded in developing the technology to shoot down satellites, it will have achieved technical superiority over the US, which is still struggling to develop its interceptor missile technology. someone tell me that this is BS
To: Sandreckoner
Unbelievable. This is the kind of ridiculously ignorant reporting (as well as that of the main Telegraph article which so casually claimed China was building an "aircraft carrier") that has people buying into literally any China-hype you can think of.
To: Sandreckoner
Seems to me our satellite-based particle beams would blow a missle out of the sky at the speed of light before it got close....
To: Sandreckoner
Reporters + Science = LOL
These guys are dumber than a bag of retarded hammers.
To: Sandreckoner
When they can fake a Moon landing, get back to me.
7 posted on
01/18/2007 9:01:09 PM PST by
FLOutdoorsman
(The Man who says it can't be done should not interrupt the man doing it!)
To: Sandreckoner
China has achieved technical superiority over the United States in spacePlease don't write your own headlines.
To: Sandreckoner
13 posted on
01/18/2007 9:03:59 PM PST by
BunnySlippers
(SAY YES TO RUDY !!!)
To: Sandreckoner
The booster on their ASAT was the size of an ICBM. Heck anyone can take out a non-manuvering satellite with another orbital vehicle thrown up into space with a full size booster. The problem is that your ASAT now costs more than my satellite and due to the cost and time necessary to build the booster you couldn't take out more than a few satellites. Might provide an advantage if you want to blind me for a few days while they cause some mischief, but as a strategic weapon its useless. Besides the whole purpose of the DARPA plan for rapid response small boosters (Falcon I and Falcon V) is so that the US can put new satellites up faster they can knock them them down.
Now when they have an ASAT like the F15 launched one we developed 20 years ago let me know. Of course don't have an ASAT now because Clinton scrapped it so as not to be provocative. I guess the Chi-Coms aren't worried about being provocative.
18 posted on
01/18/2007 9:09:47 PM PST by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Sandreckoner
Uh, note that China struck one of their own satellites with a known position and velocity. Most modern spy sats can change position.
20 posted on
01/18/2007 9:10:54 PM PST by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
To: Sandreckoner
If China has succeeded in
developing using the technology
that Bill Clinton gave then in exchange for campaign contributions to shoot down satellites,...
There, I fixed it, now it's accurate.
33 posted on
01/18/2007 9:26:09 PM PST by
txroadkill
(Did you see Jack 'Vamp' that dude's throat to escape??? That was cool!!!!)
To: Sandreckoner
Don't worry about this.
My best guess is the following...and it's JUST A GUESS.
The really good resolution intel assets are no longer in orbit...they are stealthy and can FLY...they pass data not directly to the ground but by relaying to sats at 23,000 miles altitude...thus they avoid rf detection from ground-based listeners...the data is inserted into normal encrypted data streams and so no traffic analysis is possible.
The big dish rf sig intel assets would be farther out...beyond the range of these sat killers.
38 posted on
01/18/2007 9:40:29 PM PST by
Bobalu
(This is not the tag line you are looking for.....move along (waves hand))
To: Sandreckoner
If China has succeeded in developing the technology to shoot down satellites, it will have achieved technical superiority over the US, which is still struggling to develop its interceptor missile technology. F-15 ASAT
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