Russia is signaling it could take out the West's internet and GPS. There's no good backup plan. - eviltoast
  • linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss that threat.

    They know exactly where in the sky they are. They know what frequencies their antennas are tuned to. I’m betting burning out those transceivers would not be an impossible feat.

    I also don’t know how well they put up against really large lasers

    They’ve also been fully capable of putting s*** into space for years. I would not put it past them to have some form of combination weather/spy satellite and weapons platform out there.

    • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      They must be aware of the concept of re-ta-lia-tion. You shoot down my satellites, I shoot down yours. Nobody wins and we are all back 40 years.