... it will erode GPS's current 95 percent market share in China ...
four experimental satellites
it will erode GPS's current 95 percent market share
Some problems may be found in its operation because Beidou is a new system. Chinese consumers should ... show tolerance toward the Beidou system
The U.S. has no tactical or strategic skill, since we tell our enemies what our super weapons are and how they work, while our enemies keep their secrets a secret
None of these new entrants expect the U.S. to exist as a single nation much longer. Hence their need to produce an alternative
In 1990, just before the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, then-premier John Buchanan predicted Nova Scotia and the rest of Atlantic Canada would have to join the United States if the accord failed
We are so far ahead of everyone else it's silly to use our biggest cards playing in a "rigged" game
None of these new entrants expect the U.S. to exist as a single nation much longer. Hence their need to produce an alternative
lol. I think you have the US confused with Canada. The only part of the US that talks about secession is Texas, and they have a legal ground to do so if they choose.
Why bother with the spy satellites?
Google already shows you guys everything we have anyway,
I wonder what the other five percent is.
Hence their need to produce an alternative.
Nobody else even has a first generation stealth aircraft. There's no need to keep something like that secret, since nobody has the money to develope their own version of it, or a counter strategy.
When you can establish total air dominance over a region in less than a week, with zero casualties, against the most sophisticated air defenses anyone else has, you have nothing to fear except WMD's and terrorists.
They were neutralized in 1 day. Decimated in 1 week.
That's actually not true. Some Asian countries have stealth right now and I believe both China and India are mass producing stealth fighters.
I'm pretty sure the U.S. has space-borne lasers already. If it ever comes to a war, we should be able to shoot down their navigation system within a few minutes.
The libs on this forum are just typical libs - they stay in a constant state of panic, doom, and gloom. If scientists really want to study something that causes major harm to mankind and the environment, they should seek a cure for the mental disorder generally called "liberalism".
Orbital sattellites (especially those for GPS) orbit at around 20000km which is WAY out of reach of such a laser (conversely space based lasers are useless for ground attacks or attacks on other sattelites. The ranges are just too enormous and the sizes of lasers you'd need WAY to costly to put into orbit.)
Wrong.
The atmosphere is the limiting factor in laser range, but once you are outside the atmosphere, a laser is not interacting with anything. The light travels on forever.
Military spy satellites orbit at an altitude of about 200 miles, which is well within the effective range of the weapon, and given some leeway for angular attacks within the footprint of the base of a cone with sides equal to the maximum range, we can see how the footprint of the weapon would be very large indeed, and vacuum does NOT count towards effective range.
The light travels on forever.
I am certainly not an expert in lasers, so correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't a beam lose focus over long distances? Even in a vacuum a laser beam would lose intensity over long distances.
If you aim this at the bridge of a ship, or the cockpit or gunwell of a tank, aircraft, or conventional gun on a ship, you will kill the inhabitants instantly, and fry the computers.
Even heavy duty industrial lasers can't instantly cut through limbs (maybe a finger) because the resulting steam quickly disperses the beam once it gets less than a few centimeters in.
(I once worked alongside a group developing lasers for surgical/bone cutting procedures)
The libs on this forum are just typical libs - they stay in a constant state of panic, doom, and gloom. If scientists really want to study something that causes major harm to mankind and the environment, they should seek a cure for the mental disorder generally called "liberalism".
In the mean time why you ignorant "conservatards" argue about the best way to teach creationism in schools, the billionaire Chinese communists just put up a full blown china encoded GPS system. You can read the liberal between my fingers scooterG treasonous tea-party looser.
And to get back to the original point: There's a tiny difference between a test shot at a a few km range and up to (or down from) a sattelite up 20000km in orbit.
None of these new entrants expect the U.S. to exist as a single nation much longer. Hence their need to produce an alternative
lol. I think you have the US confused with Canada. The only part of the US that talks about secession is Texas, and they have a legal ground to do so if they choose.
Here's the wiki page on Canadian secession movements:
http://en.wikiped...f_Canada
I particularly like this quote:In 1990, just before the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, then-premier John Buchanan predicted Nova Scotia and the rest of Atlantic Canada would have to join the United States if the accord failed
Parts of England are having serious secession talks as well, and the European Union is in serious danger of falling apart due to the ongoing fincancial .
I am certainly not an expert in lasers, so correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't a beam lose focus over long distances? Even in a vacuum a laser beam would lose intensity over long distances
Actually the relevant term for a gaussian beam is the Rayleigh length zR (distance until the beam doubles in area)
The only thing the USA could do to really screw up things with china is for screw with the national debt, and if the Republicans decide to do that, I'm sure china will modify their monetary policy making them the global exchange rate anchor
VendicarD
Dec 28, 2012None of these new entrants expect the U.S. to exist as a single nation much longer. Hence their need to produce an alternative.