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Old 22nd Feb 2023, 08:59
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Originally Posted by Bueno Hombre
There seems to be no capability at all to destroy an enemy craft at an altitude , say, of 100,000 feet. Too high for rockets fired from jet fighter, and too low for anti satellite space based weapons.
Why the obsession with destroying stuff?

We can't destroy satellites without major repercussions, and even then we probably couldn't destroy a significant proportion of what's already there. We can't reliably destroy ICBMs. Other countermeasures are available; you don't have to go round destroying everything all the time...
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