[blibble]

presumably the UK could figure out how to remove the top of a trident missile and replace it with a load of ball bearings

[mr_toad]

Tridents can reach mach 19. Orbital velocity is more like mach 100.

Not that the UK manufactures trident missiles anyway.

[eeL3bo1mohn7pee]

27720km/h orbital velocity is Mach 22.4 at a sea level speed of sound

[kuschku]

You don't need orbital velocity to blow satellites away. Just do a well-timed suborbital launch against the satellite's orbit, and the satellite will provide most of the kinetic energy.

[adastra22]

Orbital velocity is nowhere near mach 100.

[blibble]

if only you could put some sort of explosive charge on the top