Just a matter of time before these are small enough to fit on satellites which is what's really needed to provide real missle defence over an area as large as the the US or North America. Considering it only takes like 12-20 minutes for a missile from Aisa to readon North America they would need to keep the jets in the air 24/7 there would be no time to prep and take off. These would be really handy in a conflict though. If they can destroy missles they'd have no problems destroying aircraft.
An what kind of power supply would that satellite have? Solar won't cut it. NASA doesn't have a workable critical nuclear reactor solution. The only way satellite based systems could work was the kind that SDI proposed originally; they contained nuclear explosives that powered (very temporarily) an x-ray pumped laser beam.
Kind of hard to get any sort of presidential approval to put that sort of hardware in space these days. What was (sort of) acceptable under Reagen in the 1980s doesn't fly today.
Why wouldn't solar work? I'm sure it could be set up with some sort of capacitor/battery system, as the power is only going to be needed for a short period of time.
Instead of just a satellite, we need our own space station, kinda like that international one we have up there, but one with only US and allied interests...Then we can mount a laser on it and create a death star...maybe even mount some warheads as well so we can retaliate after blowing up the enemy warheads...or better yet make the laser powerful enough to wipe out a city...
Your assumptions are only correct if the aggressor launches their attack unprovoked. Because if there is a conflict escalating to anywhere near the point of nuclear warfare the plane would be deployed (with a fleet of tanker jets, no doubt) to the designated area during the escalation, before the missiles are actually launched.
However we are pretty screwed if a country just decides to go off and launch a few hundred ICBMs at us with no warning, however only a few countries have the capability and they have as much to lose as we do, thus there shouldn't be much to worry about.
Last i checked, we didnt provoke pearl harbor or 9/11, so i would have to assume that any attack be it nuclear or terror will be unprovoked.
And of course there wouldnt be any warning if a rogue country like Iran or North Korea decided to attach us. Yes its very unlikely and the whole death star talk was purely satirical, but just like pearl harbor and 9/11 it will be out of the blue if it ever happens.
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Just a matter of time before these are small enough to fit on satellites which is what's really needed to provide real missle defence over an area as large as the the US or North America. Considering it only takes like 12-20 minutes for a missile from Aisa to readon North America they would need to keep the jets in the air 24/7 there would be no time to prep and take off. These would be really handy in a conflict though. If they can destroy missles they'd have no problems destroying aircraft.
Since nobody has mentioned this, i will...they need to make these small enough to mount on a frickin shark (Dr. Evil Grin)...
An what kind of power supply would that satellite have? Solar won't cut it. NASA doesn't have a workable critical nuclear reactor solution. The only way satellite based systems could work was the kind that SDI proposed originally; they contained nuclear explosives that powered (very temporarily) an x-ray pumped laser beam.
Kind of hard to get any sort of presidential approval to put that sort of hardware in space these days. What was (sort of) acceptable under Reagen in the 1980s doesn't fly today.
Why wouldn't solar work? I'm sure it could be set up with some sort of capacitor/battery system, as the power is only going to be needed for a short period of time.
Instead of just a satellite, we need our own space station, kinda like that international one we have up there, but one with only US and allied interests...Then we can mount a laser on it and create a death star...maybe even mount some warheads as well so we can retaliate after blowing up the enemy warheads...or better yet make the laser powerful enough to wipe out a city...
Your assumptions are only correct if the aggressor launches their attack unprovoked. Because if there is a conflict escalating to anywhere near the point of nuclear warfare the plane would be deployed (with a fleet of tanker jets, no doubt) to the designated area during the escalation, before the missiles are actually launched.
However we are pretty screwed if a country just decides to go off and launch a few hundred ICBMs at us with no warning, however only a few countries have the capability and they have as much to lose as we do, thus there shouldn't be much to worry about.
Last i checked, we didnt provoke pearl harbor or 9/11, so i would have to assume that any attack be it nuclear or terror will be unprovoked.
And of course there wouldnt be any warning if a rogue country like Iran or North Korea decided to attach us. Yes its very unlikely and the whole death star talk was purely satirical, but just like pearl harbor and 9/11 it will be out of the blue if it ever happens.