Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold

Re:Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold by dodobirdlord on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:54PM (#25617867)

AWACS can be shot down by near-peer adversaries. And satellites travel in known orbits and have no capacity to evade. It's well known at this point that nations that can make current-generation fighter jets can also shoot down satellites.

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Re:Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold by chmod775 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @07:17PM (#25618042)

Making a fighter jet is way harder than hitting a satellite with a few grams worth of kinetic projectile (or, more accurately, letting the satellite run into a field them).

I wouldn't bet on any nation not being able to pull that off. In fact I can think of some teams of university students who could probably hit a Starlink satellite if you gave them some funding.

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Re:Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold by lumost on Saturday January 02, 2021 @08:36PM (#25618518)

Any nuclear armed adversary could knock out a whole hemisphere of starlinks with a single missile.

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