I'm embarrassed at how easy they bull$!T us.
Hydrazine is a bit different than high test gasoline. But even if it were, how'd you like a 140 gallon tank of high test to land on your house, with it's exterior quite hot from re-entry heating?
This was more about demonstrating how easily the US military can blow satellites out of the sky. The message wasn’t for us.
Hey Two Thirds explain to norraad what 1,000 pounds of hydrazine would do a community...
The “deadly” hydrazine gave our guys the excuse for the shot. The shot was to one-up the Chinese in a big way.They knocked down a satellite by bring another satellite to it and making a convergence collision of two satellites in nearby orbits going the same direction at slow relative speed. We just showed China, and anyone else who might be interested that we can hit a very fast bullet with a bullet. That is different by a whole order of magnitude. Not only that, we publicized the shot before we made it. That showed that we were extremely confident that it would be a success i.e. we have a functioning, consistent, and effective ABM. China crawled to a position of being able to take out a satellite by careful maneuvering. We leaped way out in front of China with this. Hey you guys, don’t embarrass yourselves by tying to knock out Taiwan with a blizzard of missiles. And Iran, you pay attention here, too.