it is questionable whether destruction of satellites would really have any real and lasting effect on the us military forces.
spy satellites are not fast enough reacting to be used in a tactical situation, and it may well be said that there use is bound completely to the weather if they are not infra red seekers, even these seekers are affected by the weather and a healthy cloud cover would put paid to them.
I see the only real way to cause any effect to the us military fighting force is to destroy satellites that are used as comm’s relays. This would at least force an increase in time between orders and action. reconnaissance assets would also be affected by this, knocking out the capability to send data via satellite, as is used with the U-2 and other reconnaissance platforms.
The destruction of the whole network of GPS satellites would not bring a fighting force to a halt, but would force the use of skills learnt in training, other than blithely following a gps, which in general any sane person wouldnt do anyway.
The destruction of the whole network of gps satellites would be quite unlikley and would require a large amount of effort to achieve.
it wouldnt take much to knock a satellite out, as even somthing the size of a pea at orbital velocities would have massive kinetic energy.
ke = 0.5m(V*V)
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