Next Big Future February 19, 2024 A SpaceX Starship will be much harder to shootdown than an ICBM. It is like an ICBM with massive course change capabilities. A SAM-5 surface to air missile is a larger missile with a top speed of Mach 4 and reaches an altitude up to 19 miles. Passenger airplanes have a cruising altitude of 33,000 to 40,000 feet (6-8 miles). The Russian S-200 SAM has a maximum altitude of 180,000 feet (55 km or 34 miles). It is generally expected that it will take four interceptors to have high probability of taking out an […]
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Russia Conducts Direct-Ascent Anti Satellite Weapon from Plesetsk
Defense Update April 22, 2020 Russia has been engaged in direct ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) anti-satellite weapon tests in the past months. On April 15, a missile launch from the Plesetsk test site on the arctic circle. Russian media sources reports said the missile tested called ‘Nudol’ has reached over 7,000 m/sec, thus positioned in the ‘hypersonic‘ category. Prior to the test, large airspace along the missile’s flight path was closed, with an area typical for a two-staged missile. Other tests of anti-satellite weapon systems were previously conducted under the “Sistema A-235 / RTTS-181M Nudol” program which has been tested at […]