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by audunw
2681 days ago
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> with little to no countermeasures available. In the short term, maybe. But it wouldn't take much time to put in place comprehensive defense for such a system. In a world with ICBMs, a weapon like this is not really something I'd be worried about. It'd be a pretty stupid weapon to use for an initial attack The only thing I'm worried about is accidents or hacks.. if that's made impossible it should be fine |
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Quite the opposite. ICBMs have somewhat symmetrical threat and defense model. You use similar technologies for both, and you have actionable amount of time - some 20 minutes - for observation, decision taking, and deployment of countermeasures.
Assuming the station is deployed on geostationary orbit (some 36'000 km above equator), the flight time of the electromagnetic waves is just over 0.1 second. Good luck deploying any countermeasures.