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UniversalMomentum t1_iympu22 wrote

I would think eventually energy weapons will almost entirely invalidate ICBMs as being all that useful because you can shoot a missile down at the speed of light, but you can never a warhead/any significant mass at the speed of light. There is a top end of the weapons speed that favors defense a lot more than force projection and eventually target should be good enough to shoot down almost anything since all non energy weapons are essentially moving in slow motion compared to electromagnetic radiation aka light.

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This_one_taken_yet_ t1_iymswte wrote

Probably would have to build each defense array it's own nuclear power plant for all the energy that will take.

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