Reply #68: Seems Pretty Obvious [View All]

[AndyTiedye]

How is "shooting down" the satellite going to prevent it from doing damage on re-entry?
All that would do (if they can hit the thing) is break it up into a few somewhat smaller pieces.
They'd still survive re-entry and they would threaten a larger area.

They want to demonstrate their ability to knock out satellites.

Couple this with the string of undersea cable failures a couple of weeks ago and it
starts to look like we are skating very close to the edge of something really nasty.