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2026-08-14 Science & Technology

New Anti-Satellite Weapons Now Officially A Top U.S. Priority

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-08-14 04:05|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [310 views ] Top
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1 Space Marines

Posted by Skidmark 2026-08-14 04:16|| 2026-08-14 04:16|| Front Page Top

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Just think what a single 1MT HEMP popped at say 100 miles could due over a IT based nation.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-08-14 05:00|| 2026-08-14 05:00|| Front Page Top

3 What could it do 2Ns?

Posted by Skidmark 2026-08-14 08:29|| 2026-08-14 08:29|| Front Page Top

4 Small drones from a drone carrier that can latch onto them and send a huge voltage shock through the satellite and disable it.

Yeah it would kick off a Kessler syndrome scenario, but it would work quickly and relatively cheaply.

Posted by DarthVader 2026-08-14 08:43|| 2026-08-14 08:43|| Front Page Top

5 The effect of a HEMP bomb varies depending on the strain, sativa, indica, or a hybrid of the two.

Posted by SteveS 2026-08-14 08:52|| 2026-08-14 08:52|| Front Page Top

6 IIRC Red Star Rising featured anti-sat missiles fired from aircraft.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-08-14 09:16|| 2026-08-14 09:16|| Front Page Top

7 You remember correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT

Posted by Chantry 2026-08-14 09:32|| 2026-08-14 09:32|| Front Page Top

8 Any physical destruction of orbital assets would forever close off space to all nations. AKA Kessler syndrome.
The anti satellite weapons of recent concern are surface laser and microwave weapons that would mission kill/blind orbital assets.

Posted by Difar Dave 2026-08-14 12:49|| 2026-08-14 12:49|| Front Page Top

9 Sorry to taking so long, doing somethings in North GA.

Q: What can a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) do to satellites and etc..?

1MT detetonated at 200km up disrupts or kills about 90% of all unshieled electronic devices in a 7,500+KM line of sight of the detonation.

People on the ground have their hearing aides, Pacemakers and smartphone fizzel out or fried in place. A inistal DOA in many cases.

Skidmark
Q: What do you think it would do to EV's like a Tesla?

Posted by NN2N1 2026-08-14 16:11|| 2026-08-14 16:11|| Front Page Top

10 What do you think it would do to EV's like a Tesla?

Not Mr. Skidmark, but I'd say that it would depend on whether it's the steel wheelie bin model (which might survive) or not.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2026-08-14 17:30|| 2026-08-14 17:30|| Front Page Top

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