The Vulture is an Unmanned Ariel Vehicle that can go up and stay up for five years without refueling or landing. How long before it is a persistent weapons platform!!??
"Vulture technology enables a re-taskable, persistent pseudo-satellite capability, in an aircraft package. The technology combines the key benefits of an aircraft (flexibility & responsiveness, sensor resolution, reduced transmit/receive power, affordability) with the benefits of space assets (on-station persistence, no logistics tail, energy independence, fleet size, absence of in-country footprint)."
--There is no fate but what we make for ourselves...
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Even if that's flying in the upper edges of atmosphere it's going to, by necessity, be moving slow. VERY slow. While a shoot-down might not be EASY, it's certainly nowhere near the complexity of an ASAT or guided SAM ... an unguided rocket and a bit of physics/trigonometry will get you there, or at least in the area.
Just imagine those things, slowly gliding over your State, looking for any sign of Rebellion against the Party....
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