Uh huh.

Yep.

They seem to be fine with that, just causing Kessler Syndrome.

Now the SR 72 is not retired, because satellite based anything becomes extremely difficult to achieve, at best, and you can put cameras and comms datalinks on them, and have them do what satellites can now not do.

Could also do ground attack on static / slow moving targets: Mach 4-6 from half a continent away, over to a target area, slow down, open bomb bay, drop a glide bomb (or a lot of em), close up, speed back up and fly away.

You now have comms intel and air superiority, at least in an offensive sense; you destroyed the previous paradigm with your new paradigm.

If you can get a reliable ‘bombtruck’ style airframe, human piloted or autonomous, working at around the Mach 5 range… who has anything that can shoot that down?

The SR 71 wasn’t really stealth, it just flew too high and too fast for anything to be able to touch it.

Oh and for the ‘glide bombs’, just do what the Iranians seem to be doing: outfit some of them with a secondary boost phase that triggers semi-randomly, based on the munition either sensing its near the target, or, sensing that something is trying to intercept it.

This also greatly relieves the entire problem of highly expensive single use long range missiles… just have a ferry for them, ease the cost and design specs of the actual munitions by doing 80% of their job.

My thought is that renewed interest in this and the not strictly confirmed but seemingly under active developement SR-72 is…

… Platform for high altitude launched, satellite killing missiles.

For a long time the US got to enjoy being basically the only power with a stupendous intelligence advantage from a network of spy and comms satellites vast enough to get total coverage, basically everywhere, at pretty low time lags.

Well now, others have comparable capabilities.

So, develop a way to remove that.

We’ve been able to shoot down satellites from aircraft launched missiles since the 80s.

We’ve specifically called for the end of tests of ground launched anti-satellite missiles, leaving aircraft launched anti-satellite missiles as a neat little carve out in our own rhetoric/intl. policy ‘suggestions’.

So, in a world where spy and comms sats are just viewed as valid targets in a large scale war/operation, a fleet of mach 3+ / potentially hypersonic aircraft that can deny intel to the opponent and likely also gather your own intel, that’re significantly harder to shoot down than a satellite… seems like a plausible doctrine to me.

Hey man, if they wanna follow the herd off the cliff, no sense trying to stop them.

Well I guess you won’t see it, but the block is mutual, you thin skinned, self righteous hypocrite.

If anyone else reads this, I didn’t and wasn’t saying they are stupid. You can be a smart self centered prick or hypocrite. Arguably, casting yourself as a powerless victim instead of ultimately responsible for yourself in a situation where you do actually have the power to make a meaningful choice, arguably, that is a rather intelligent, indirect tactic.

What I was saying was stupid was the reasoning they presented in support of their position.

As well as the notion that more or less, capitalism stole their attention span and/or executive function.

Even if that’s true, that’s an explanation for how an injury occured, not a plan for recovering from said injury.

Funny they call me a doomer as they write hysterical explanations for accepting their apparently unavoidable fate.

Just a random reminder that your excuse making is laughable, especially with your inherently pretentious and entitled phrasing.

You either have principles you uphold or you don’t, and then you’re usually a hypocrite, or at least, openly self-centered. Often both.

Us non hypocrites won’t miss not knowing another insecure panicked self centered hypocrite, just as you evidently won’t miss knowing people who actually have standards they judge themselves and others by equally.

Its a very bad plan to rely on people with no principles, so your threat of exclusion from the group of people who despise being inconvenienced and can’t follow through on doing inconvenient things, is… laughable.

What does ‘availability is commanded by monopolies…’ even mean?

What, you don’t have the … mental capacity, brain ability to cancel or delete or stop using one piece of software and instead use another? Yet here you are writing your apologia on a uh, non socially standard message board, so obviously that isn’t true.

Yeah I’m gonna be the asshole and tell you if you can’t make responsible decisions for yourself, I don’t care about you and your inability to stop doing what is ultimately self destructive behavior.

Many people are exhausted, lazy, do not actually have any real principles or discipline, and are unwilling to endure inconvenience.

Unreliable entitled self-centered hypocrites.

I am glad you realized your former friends were lacking in character. It sucks to lose friends, but in the long run, bad people will just drag you down to their own level of miserable mediocrity.

Sit ye down and have a listen, lad, to the tale, of the mariner’s revenge.

If it don’t put some hurdy in your gurdy, I fear you’ve seen either far too little, or far too much, of these merciless and farsical cybernetic seas.