The ultimate high ground is space, and our eyes are satelites. 2B effective, their eyes must be extraordinarily sensitive. That means they’re vulnerable. Laser blinding tech is not super expensive.
Given that SO many of our weapons rely on those birds, it would be foolhardy in a war scenario for an enemy not to try to simply scratch our “eyes” out, instead of taking us head-on:
They want to test satellite vulnerability and effective countermeasures to such an attack.
Because SO much depends on it.
Why is the Air Force talking about this bird? Wouldn’t it have been better to keep things quiet...