Sure looks like we're heading towards an inevitable kessler syndrome, nobody seems to be in charge or care that much anymore.
I have a hunch that we're about two months away from news of the first satellite control hack, it's just a matter of time before that or some malfunction starts blowing things up.
Guns? Why not arm them with EMP weapons? It's not beneficial to blow things in orbit to smithereens. Just keep'em in one piece if your country wants to be able to operate satellites in the future.
Maybe bring back water-cooled machineguns, and pump the coolant to radiators. Shouldn't be hard really, just has some secondary consequences, such as lighting up your own satellite on every IR sensor in orbit.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 29.0 ms ] threadI have a hunch that we're about two months away from news of the first satellite control hack, it's just a matter of time before that or some malfunction starts blowing things up.
Also, good luck cooling a gun barrel in space.
Using a submachine gun in space is ww3 territory.