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To: kms61
“potential adversaries like China”

This is a great weapon to fight inferior forces. Fighting a more conventional foe, like China, it won’t help much. I would expect China to shoot down all our satellites in the first few minutes of a conflict.

12 posted on 02/15/2008 6:21:08 AM PST by live+let_live
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To: live+let_live
I would expect China to shoot down all our satellites in the first few minutes of a conflict.

We'll find out in a few weeks if we can do the same. The interesting thing without satellites is that if they shoot down everything, that means no GPS, no satellite-guided bombs, etc. I'm sure a lot of civilian operations would be affected. The military uses civilian satellites, too.

44 posted on 02/15/2008 8:34:31 AM PST by tlj18 (2008 is the Year of the Rat. So say the Chinese (zhong ren).)
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