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Re:Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after reco... by catalogia on Monday October 28, 2019 @12:55PM (#21378757)
The premise of using a shuttle like this seems like a reinvention of fractional orbital bombardment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment...

Not the cheapest way to do it by any means, but I suppose masquerading as a harmless civilian space plane gives you some degree of plausible deniability, since it would be violating a few treaties to have such a system.

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