Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology
Recently retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast gave a lecture last month that seems to further signal that the next major battlefield will be outer space. While military leadership rattling the space sabers is nothing new, Kwast's lecture included comments that heavily hint at the possibility that the United States military and its industry partners may have already developed next-generation technologies that have the potential to drastically change the aerospace field, and human civilization, forever. Is this mere posturing or could we actually be on the verge of making science fiction a reality?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 17 2019, @06:35AM
It is the standard trade off in warfare. If you can't do something better, do more of it. If you can't make a single object capable of reliable interception of those, then just shoot more than one interceptor. For an example of such a philosophy, look at the CIWS or CRAM, where multiple projectiles (sometimes in the thousands) are used.