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Re:SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly by m4rtink on Thursday June 19, 2025 @05:00AM (#44316770)
Shuttle regularly launched spy sats and was designed to grab an enemy one in a single orbit mission. Also Soviets believed it would nuke Moscow by sudden plane change via its wings & build their own version as a result.

That sounds military enough for me.

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Re:SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly by dotancohen on Thursday June 19, 2025 @05:05AM (#44316792)
The bombing of the Soviet Union was to happen via polar launch. The wings were there not for plane change, rather for cross range landing after the single orbit polar mission.
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Re:SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly by m4rtink on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:30AM (#44317218)
Interesting - I was never sure about the exact mechanism m, just that the orbital speed & lift provided by wings were part of it. :)
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