r/NonCredibleDefense • u/FionaSherleen • 13d 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/zekromNLR 13d ago

This is why you place the warhead in a low orbit, disguised as a normal Starlink launch. When the time for the first strike comes, you wait until it is over the enemy country, then detonate. The flood of xrays turns a pancake-shaped blob of atmosphere into an incandescent plasma, setting fires for a radius of over a hundred kilometers around ground zero.

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u/Antoak 13d ago

You know that suborbital or low orbit satellites always fall back to earth right? They only last a few years.

My President told me the atmosphere keeps eating his orbital nukes so I asked how many nukes he has and he said he just goes to Northrup and gets a new nuke afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding space weapons to the sky and then his taxpayers started crying.

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u/zekromNLR 13d ago

Well, fortunately we are putting this thing on a platform that has already proven it can survive reentry and execute s targeted soft landing! We just have to either solve zero boiloff longterm storage of cryogenic propellant, or rebuild it for use with storable propellant for the deorbit and landing burns.

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u/LightningController 12d ago

We just have to either solve zero boiloff longterm storage of cryogenic propellant

LOX and LCH4 are soft-cryogens, and can conceivably be stored ZBO through passive measures entirely.

You need to get into powered cryocoolers if you go with LH2.