02-25-2019, 04:11 PM
The US military does not use the commercial GPS satellites!
I didn’t say they did.
We have several separate systems. No one can take out enough of them to matter.
Some sources believe China will very soon have the capacity to take out every US military comm satellite.* Others are slightly more cautious, but not by much:
"If you were an adversary attacking the US, you'd start by attacking satellites," said Singer. "The first shots in a war between the US and China or Russia, no one would likely hear."
China and Russia also rely on space systems for numerous functions, but the US is more heavily dependent. Chinese and Russian jets still use analogue systems in their older jets and tanks and boats, and could operate better without satellites.
The US would then be able to quickly replace downed satellites with smaller, cheaper ones that would simultaneously create more, lower-value targets for adversaries to find and destroy.
And that is where the Keaau launch site would come in. It would be a great asset, one of several small rocket facilities around the world, that would get American air, sea, and land navigation up and running
https://www.businessinsider.com/space-ra...us-2017-07
* https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/c...pace-27182
I didn’t say they did.
We have several separate systems. No one can take out enough of them to matter.
Some sources believe China will very soon have the capacity to take out every US military comm satellite.* Others are slightly more cautious, but not by much:
"If you were an adversary attacking the US, you'd start by attacking satellites," said Singer. "The first shots in a war between the US and China or Russia, no one would likely hear."
China and Russia also rely on space systems for numerous functions, but the US is more heavily dependent. Chinese and Russian jets still use analogue systems in their older jets and tanks and boats, and could operate better without satellites.
The US would then be able to quickly replace downed satellites with smaller, cheaper ones that would simultaneously create more, lower-value targets for adversaries to find and destroy.
And that is where the Keaau launch site would come in. It would be a great asset, one of several small rocket facilities around the world, that would get American air, sea, and land navigation up and running
https://www.businessinsider.com/space-ra...us-2017-07
* https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/c...pace-27182
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