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India Developing Vehicle To Knock Enemy Satellites

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the start-humming-the-music dept.

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."

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  1. Ready set fight by RedTeflon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I personally cant wait for Dish & Direct TV to start battling it out by shooting down each others satellites.

  2. Re:Oh great, more orbital shooting gallery! by MRe_nl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's an article1 about the military version of the Soviet Salyut space station, which flew as Salyuts 3 and 5 between 1974 and 1977.
    Virtually no information was available about the military Salyuts until recently, when access was opened up to a full-scale training model at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Well, guess what--Salyut 3 had a machine gun. The station had a 23 mm rapid-fire cannon mounted on the outside, along the long axis of the station "for defence against US space-based inspectors/interceptors".

    http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/spaceguns/

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    "Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
  3. Re:Buckshot orbital shooting gallery! by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fortunately, space is big. Really big.

    [citation needed]

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    Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.