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by Qem
1768 days ago
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Kessler syndrome itself could probably be weaponized as the cheapest superweapon ever. Say you rule over a small country, under risk of invasion by a much more powerful country, that relies heavily on GPS guided missiles, aircraft and ammunition. Probably it would not be very expensive to pick a couple fat satellites at the right orbital plane, blow them with small missiles able to reach orbital altitude, and let the resulting debris scattershot start a chain reaction to take down every GPS satellite in existence, rendering low to medium Earth orbit useless for centuries as a byproduct. Those smart ammunitions would be crippled overnight, forcing the more powerful country to risk old style boots-in-the-ground invasion, with much degraded technical support. |
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