India Developing Vehicle To Knock Enemy Satellites 178
Frankie70 writes "Star Wars are back in fashion. With perennial (and nuclear armed) foe Pakistan always teetering on the brink of political collapse and neighboring regional superpower China taking greater strides into space technology, India has announced that it is developing an exo-atmospheric 'kill vehicle' that will knock enemy satellites out of orbit."
Go Missiles! (Score:3, Funny)
Can't regular missiles do the job?
Won't somebody think of the missiles?
Ready set fight (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bad Idea (Score:1, Funny)
When you have Jihadist neighbors like Pakistan, weaponizing space is a good idea.
... because next thing you know, Pakistan will be raining virgins down on India.
Re:Knock (Score:5, Funny)
Luckily, very few satellites these days have "Wizard Lock" and or "Hold Portal" cast on them.
Re:Which will be immediately countered.... (Score:1, Funny)
History, too.
Re:Ready set fight (Score:3, Funny)
I personally cant wait for Dish & Direct TV to start battling it out by shooting down each others satellites.
And the only way the public wins, is if they BOTH are successful.
Re:Oh great, more orbital shooting gallery! (Score:3, Funny)
I am open to suggestions, since I am out of silly ideas that sound appealing to me.
Um... um... giant space wet napkin?
Using quantum mechanics to probabilistically erase the debris out of objective reality?
Sex bot?
Yeah, I know sex bot don't clean up teh orbits, but I'd worry less about space debris if I had one.
Re:Buckshot orbital shooting gallery! (Score:5, Funny)
Fortunately, space is big. Really big.
[citation needed]
Re:India announces a lot. (Score:5, Funny)
Five aircraft carriers on the moon would do India a fat lot of good,
there's no atmosphere for the planes you dumbass.
India & China going to war? (Score:3, Funny)
If India and China went to war that would wipe out the take-out industry on a global scale. We would all be stuck eating Mexican.
Re:Oh great, more orbital shooting gallery! (Score:1, Funny)
this is not true. when we test fire cannon station did not change trajectory. a burst of 23mm round has insufficient mass to signifiantly alter trajectory of space station. hoever we now have shchit-3 space-to-space cannon with ejectable sleeve is far mroe efficient at engaging space target by detaching projectile and therefore reaction force from station before launch. we can kill approaching ekkv with sar radar tracking and engage at bvr ranges with 99.9% kill probavbilty in extreme edge of kill envelope. Yediny, moguchy Sovetsky Soyuz!