Similarities to the Chinese and their wx sat anyone?
As I understood it all, of the Intel gathering sats had charges on them to destroy the equipment at the end of life, but this would certainly seem a useful opportunity to test a ground based missile.
Were the F15 launched ASAT's manufactured by Lockheed? I have vague recollections of reading someware that the remaining ones had issues with some of the propellant / and or structural integrity?
