• DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    Exactly, this is just a test, if they actually had decent spy satellites watching the US, they’d be watching military bases instead, and they wouldn’t announce them like this. This is just standard DPRK fearmongering.

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      11 months ago

      Since the late 50’s, almost all military bases in Russia and the US (and I would assume in China and other Western countries as well) have been constructed and upgraded with “satellite cover”, meaning that pretty much anything important happens underground, in massive uniform warehouses, massive covered hangers, discrete buildings that are oftentimes featureless and identical, and in covered train terminals (many of which are also underground).

      Military bases often use lots of foliage and trees to cover roads, walking paths, and doorways.

      Spy satellites have already been countered in the way you are thinking.

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        11 months ago

        Oh, of course! Thanks for letting me know something that I probably should’ve figured out ages ago. They’ve been doing stuff like that since WW2, so there’s no reason to think they’d stop.