What are the chances that we have one or more of these in orbit and they will work successfully when needed to intercept a nuclear warhead?
Could a Lockheed Martin Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV-L) work?
Camden Fisher
Jacob Sanders
Space Force, niggers!
Gabriel Richardson
The physics are solid. A anti-ballistic missile in orbit would be able to respond way faster, assuming it was in the right place. (i.e you'd have to put like 20 of them in different places in the orbit to guarantee success) That being said, how effective would it really be against a nuclear strike? A nuclear strike would probably involve a significant percentage of the available warheads, i.e hundreds of bombs if not thousands. I doubt any such system would have the capacity to deal with that many missiles.
Oliver Morris
bump
Nicholas Diaz
thats what i was thinking, you would need to place them in suspected orbits the warheads would take. This does not include missiles launched from subs which can take very unpredictable paths because they can pop up anywhere in the world
Gavin Morgan
Has anybody told you that nukes will travel against the US on hypersonic missiles ?
Jordan Nelson
Hypersonic isn't magic, it doesn't mean impossible to intercept. A kill vehicle in space would have a much better chance to intercept, because it would intercept the missile in its slowest phase (during the highest point in the orbit) and it wouldn't need all that time to get to that place like a land-based missile would. It's a solid concept, as long as you can spend trillions of dollars on hundreds of those things on different orbits and in sufficient numbers.
Brody Mitchell
Yeah good luck lol
Oliver Peterson
That's a pretty cool one, but keep in mind that a intercepting missile could still take it out by destroying or degrading the (probably quite fragile) aerodynamic control surfaces. It would still hit the earth mostly intact, but not the target.
Asher Campbell
You are forgetting that these weapons are deigned to evade intercept. ICBMs carry dummy warheads that will confuse the kill vehicles. Hypersonic missiles flown at low altitude are very difficult to counter because by the time it shows up on radar you don't have time to deploy counter measures. Not to mention tracking something that fast is a challenge for any targeting system.