10 Most-Terrifying Space Weapons

5. Kamikaze-Style Satellites

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One of the most-bizarre proposals for a space-dwelling weapon, so-called "Kamikaze-style satellites" were trialled in the USSR during the Cold War.

The idea was pretty simple: send a satellite into space, leave it to orbit before, when the time was right, allowing it to lose its orbital track and fall towards a target on Earth at a huge velocity.

Thankfully this proposal never became a reality - but it remains a frightening prospect that any nation sending a satellite into space could still use it for this destructive purpose...

 
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