What the fuck is this weapon from 1989 and why I have never heard of it before? Youtube randomly recommended this to me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnofCyaWhI0
>>65212564This was the FPV drone that everybody cried about in Battlefield 4.
>>65212564A long time ago (the Cold War) there was a plan called Brilliant Pebbles to put missile and kinetic interceptor stations into orbit. Like a fuckload of them. That way if the Russians launched, it wouldn't matter because anything they launched would be intercepted before it ever reentered the atmosphere. This is genuinely a great idea because not only does it stop your enemies from using classic ballistic missiles on you functionally ever again, but it also allows you to control space. China wants to put something in orbit? Wrong, intercepted. Russia wants to do something? Wrong again, intercepted. It gives you the capacity to deny your enemies (and allies) complete access to the second ocean and solidifies your hegemony over the world unless you're comfortable with being a mudhut goat fucker until the end of time you must play by America's rules. The issue is that it was literally impossible to do as a consequence of launch capacity. The cost alone would have been truly enormous, but the larger problem was the launch capacity. This led to the DoD canning the project, especially after the Soviet Union fell but work on kinetic interceptors still went on for a while after. Now the equation is changed and the potential to actually do this exists. Which is leading to certain concerns about space dominance into this next decade. Eventually someone is gonna do this, and it should probably be the US who does it instead of China.
>>65212624All for the low low cost of thousands of tonnes of material being sent to orbit at 10k per kg and removed from orbit for a couple of dollars worth of mains electricity when any shitpot with a grudge builds a tracking station and laser array
>>65212564>>65212569that is fun drone in BF4
>>65213801>when any shitpot with a grudge builds a tracking station and laser arrayYeah but what weaksauce are you using to power those old lasers? Get your whole wave of missiles X-Ray'd nerd.
>>65213801>$10k per kgThat’s the oldspace number. Falcon 9 style reusability is a third that. If they ever get Starship Superheavy working properly, it’ll be a tenth that.Starlink wouldn’t work at $10k per kilogram.
>>65213801This sounds like bullshit. Can a knower please weigh in on the current or near future feasibility of a ground based ASAT laser?
