SM-3 has a range of about 900km at Mach 13 and is designed to shoot down satellites (and ICBMs). 124k feet isn't even 40km altitude. So an AEGIS equipped DDG with an SM-3 should be capable as long as it's within a reasonable range of the target.
Realistically that flight ceiling is bullshit, it's just not really meant to hit anything beyond that range, but a ballon at 124k feet would be an easy target and it should have zero problems.
>Flight ceiling is bullshit
No, I don't think it is.
You are fighting against gravity the whole way it's not like you can just add height like that especially when the balloon is unlikely to be exactly above the launcher
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's not THAT bad,
SM-3 has a 1200km range, and 900-1050km flight ceiling.
So the 240km range SM-6 should equate to a theoretical ~180-210km flight ceiling if it's booster has a similar performance loss as the SM-3.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The rocket equation would suggest that this smaller rocket
2 years ago
Anonymous
Care to finish your thought?
2 years ago
Anonymous
I think you accidentally part of your sentence.
The whole thing.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>would suggest that this smaller rocket
Anon you can't just leave us in suspense
That's just what those pinko bastards in NASA want you to believe - because you could get twice the work out of them for half the budge it we moved to a primarily balloon based space program!
a really jacked dude with a slingshot
Kek. Just imagine some old school roided baseball batter
bet
>124,000 feet
That might be above the S-300 service ceiling but since that target isn't moving much it might be able to make it.
Probably a S400/500 could physically hit it, but the radar and IR signature of balloons are both tiny. Almost stealthy.
anti satellite missile
How is it supposed to break through the firmament?
atheists btfo
SM-3 has a range of about 900km at Mach 13 and is designed to shoot down satellites (and ICBMs). 124k feet isn't even 40km altitude. So an AEGIS equipped DDG with an SM-3 should be capable as long as it's within a reasonable range of the target.
It's kill vehicle isn't even deployed at that altitude.
Then SM-6
Maybe if the ship is right under the balloon.
Realistically that flight ceiling is bullshit, it's just not really meant to hit anything beyond that range, but a ballon at 124k feet would be an easy target and it should have zero problems.
>Flight ceiling is bullshit
No, I don't think it is.
You are fighting against gravity the whole way it's not like you can just add height like that especially when the balloon is unlikely to be exactly above the launcher
It's not THAT bad,
SM-3 has a 1200km range, and 900-1050km flight ceiling.
So the 240km range SM-6 should equate to a theoretical ~180-210km flight ceiling if it's booster has a similar performance loss as the SM-3.
The rocket equation would suggest that this smaller rocket
Care to finish your thought?
I think you accidentally part of your sentence.
The whole thing.
>would suggest that this smaller rocket
Anon you can't just leave us in suspense
A $40 laser from Wish.
A carefully reprogrammed ICBM
There is no way to control balloons in space.
That's just what those pinko bastards in NASA want you to believe - because you could get twice the work out of them for half the budge it we moved to a primarily balloon based space program!
Some crazy motherfricker is trying to make orbital blimps. He's johnmpowell on YouTube.
Me and a Lee Enfield
>download (49).jpg
Damn this dude's download folder is this disorganized.
The Dugway laser
Nice fisheye lens