Why haven't there been more attacks on satellite? All it

>>32256298
Because if someone did that it would be considered an act of war and repercussions would be commensurate to the damage done.

Information and communication are both key to national defense and taking out satellites disrupts both of those, ergo, an attack on a nation's satellite network is an attack on that nation's capacity to defend itself.

>>32256326

But there's no way to confirm who did it.

And why would ISIS care about declarations of war?

>>32256298
Because satellites have input overload safety systems. They are literally billion-dollar assets, not easily replaced either. And do you have any idea how MUCH radio frequency energy you'd have to generate to scorch a Comsat, particularly a geosynchronous one

>>32256344
how is ISIS going to attack a satellite

why would ISIS attack a satellite, when they rely on western comms and GPS satellites

>>32256298
It takes an Ilyshin and god damn battle laser just to blind optics. Ground based laser cannon with AS capabilities would be giant and has nothing about "cheap".

You are not entirely wrong, but i think you forget about the inverse square law. If you needed 1kW to destroy a satellite 1m from you, you need 4kW to destroy a satellite 2m from you and so forth. Simply you need a shit-ton of power and coolant, as well as a very well collimated antenna.

>>32257558

Something that China has the infrastructure to support and as said, can't be traced to them unless there's a whistleblower (which China is very good at preventing)

So why hasn't China tried to burn up one or two satellites, just to have the Americans waste money sending up new satellites

>>32256298

Shoot down American satellite:
> another satellite in the net takes over
> US government says nothing
> suddenly, space UAV starts flying around just raping all your shit in orbit and you won't even know it's there because it can deploy a balloon made from RAM to stealth itself

Why do you think there's almost always an X35 in orbit doing secret shit?

>>32259132
why do u assume a signal of that strength is undetectable

>>32256298
Pretty sure an attack on Satellite's is akin to the use of a nuclear or chemical weapon in the agression agreements between nations.

As it stands, an attack on a satellite would be an essential precipitation to a pre-emptive strike against a nation. Basically a sure guarantee that one was about to launch a devastating strike on the target nation, at a national level.