Schumacher
Senior Member
I heard all US targets for the missle shield carries a homing device broadcasting its position, and US still missed hitting it in the last few rounds of testing. The orbit move was probably intended to get it out of the default space reserved for its replacement. Eitherway, it is not easy to hit another moving target with a missile traveling at 12000 miles per hour
Yes, there have been many reports abt the homing devices on the missile shield tests. Should have been easy to hit, but somehow they still missed on most.
US has the tendency to exaggerate its own abilities, maybe not so much to show off, but just that it worked so well in the past with Star Wars in deceiving the USSR into a costly arms race.
Whereas PLA seems mostly want to downplay its abilities, like this ASAT where they still have not admitted it.
Only time will tell which strategy is more effective.
I heard the US is unable to contact a new and expensive military satellite just launched last year.
Surely just coincidence but some hawks in US military must have spent a few moments contemplating tying it to PLA's ASAT test to create an incident. Most likely they got cold feet.
Would have looked like something out of a Clancy book.
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