What if?…🎈Across the Great Plains, from northern Colorado and throughout Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana, are the missile fields of the United States nuclear program. Each of the three Strategic Missile Wings at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming
(plainshumanities.unl.edu)
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yeah but why, don’t they have sattelites?
They do, but low-altitude satellites cannot pick up every kind of signature, and their presence overhead is limited to only a few minutes at best.
Plus satellite orbits are very predictable so the enemy would just cover up what they didn't want seen which is why we developed the U2 and after that got shot down the SR-71 (just outrun the missiles.)
You have your history in error. The photo-reconnaissance satellite was developed in parallel with the U-2. Upon the Gary Powers episode, satellite development was given top priority, with a view toward replacing the U-2. The SR-71 was never operated in a mode to challenge Soviet surface-to-air missiles. (The SA-2 top speed was Mach 3.5 vs. the SR-71 at Mach 3. But surface-to-air engagements are head-on, or side-on, not a tail chase. The SR-71 would have been a goner. Same reason they canceled the B-70.) By that point, the CORONA program had proven its capability.
So this is somehow a viable spying solution?
Depends on the data gathered and the results obtained. It seems to be a viable test of Biden's resolve.
bidens resolve part is interesting.