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I said ‘likely’; I’ve no evidence. But the latent capability is likely a software upgrade away, assuming it isn’t loaded by default. There’s no reason not to think the weapons have this ability given the large amount of LEO satellites that the PRC has deployed to track the USN (over a dozen) and that as far as I know the US has no moratorium on ASAT weapons or declaration that it doesn’t operate an ASAT system.The previous shoot down was SM-3 Blk 1. Blk 2 has the wider 21” second motor; the older missile was supposed to barely be capable of reaching a target in a degraded LEO orbit.
I said ‘likely’; I’ve no evidence. But the latent capability is likely a software upgrade away, assuming it isn’t loaded by default. There’s no reason not to think the weapons have this ability given the large amount of LEO satellites that the PRC has deployed to track the USN (over a dozen) and that as far as I know the US has no moratorium on ASAT weapons or declaration that it doesn’t operate an ASAT system.
The previous shoot down was SM-3 Blk 1. Blk 2 has the wider 21” second motor; the older missile was supposed to barely be capable of reaching a target in a degraded LEO orbit.
