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Re:How Do We Prevent War in Space? by 3pt14159 on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:08AM (#24941359)
Yes they do. I don't know much about it, but it's been mentioned in some OSINT slacks that there are fallback terrestrial or sea-based systems for things like ordinance guiding. Also, ICBMs use star constellations and other sources of information for guidance.

The military isn't so stupid as to ignore Kessler syndrome.

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Re:How Do We Prevent War in Space? by Unklejoe on Friday October 30, 2020 @09:41AM (#24942072)
I know that at least the Minuteman III ICBMs are inertially guided. They program the coordinates into it and hit "send". No remote control, no flight termination.
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