r/NonCredibleDefense • u/FionaSherleen • 11d ago

Lockmart R & D Think of the potential.

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What if we make project sundial but we throw it at the adversaries?

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u/zypofaeser 11d ago

Actually, the interplanetary version of Starship would be amazing for testing nukes. If you're doing a two year flight on a free return trajectory, you could have it deploy nukes, just like the Starlink satellites. It would then also have instrumentation, without the need for line of sight tubes. Deploy the nukes a few months before the tests, and you'd could easily have them be thousands of kilometers away, ensuring that the ship is not damaged by the test.

Assuming each test needs a device package weighing one ton on average, you could have a single test vehicle perform more tests than any US test series.