Talk:Strategic Orbital Linear Gun/@comment-37111196-20181006015917

In retrospect, the whole concept is pretty silly. Every time the SOLG was fired, its orbit would change. It would need to use fuel to compensate for that, fuel which could just as well propel a missile. Using missiles, there's really no need for the middle-man of a satellite, as it could just fly into space and wait in orbit to be launched. Any ammo resupplies would need to reach the altitude and velocity of the SOLG anyway. ICBMs just make more sense. They go up into orbit, drop bombs, and come down themselves as bombs.