I’m wondering... doesn’t a long range round like this depend on our satellize and battlefield electronics planes for accurate spotting, so it can be delivered where its needed?
To those who know, and can talk a little from their vantagepoint, how dependent is precision weaponry on global electronic information, and how vulnerable is that? I’m thinking about the recent news that the Russians have satellites in tracking orbits behind some of our satellites. Does ASAT warfare negate the advantage here?
To those who know, and can talk a little from their vantagepoint, how dependent is precision weaponry on global electronic information, and how vulnerable is that? I’m thinking about the recent news that the Russians have satellites in tracking orbits behind some of our satellites. Does ASAT warfare negate the advantage here?
ASAT warfare can cause us problems, for certain. There are numerous methods of spotting targets. If the target can be located, and it is in range, it can be hit.
ASAT warfare has potential to degrade smart weapons such as these. They depend on GPS during flight to obtain the best accuracy. But GPS does not have to be on continually. They have internal inertial guidance systems that work in conjunction with and separately from GPS. There are some work-arounds as well.
I have heard of localized, temporary GPS based on high flying drones, for example, or set up on land based locations.
The answer is destruction of our space resources would hurt us a good bit; we have and our considering this and ways to counteract it.
President Trump's Space Force is focused on this as one of its missions.
We need to beef up our military satellites. Equip them with drones, that when deployed after separation from our satellite, will use gas thrusters to position near the Russian satellite, throw a net on the Russian satellite, and then use thrusters to drag it down out of orbit. I should work for the Army Research Laboratory, got a million ideas.