Talk:Orbital weaponry

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The bit about "RUMI" smacked of pure fabrication on account of A) A weapon that happened to share it's proposers nickname B) A ridiculously impractical proposal (no remote weapon, no matter how effective, can fight a ground war) that no man experienced in military matters would likely make. If the pie in the sky proposal was really made, please inclued a citation before re-adding it.

[edit] Orbital battle stations

This section may be needed soon in the present article, or the topic could be divided into "orbital weaponry in fiction" and "orbital weaponry." Conservative and liberal blogs are reporting that the Bush administration plans to call for "Orbital battle stations" which would fire kinetic weapons at ICBMs during their boost phase. I have not seen any print media or other reliable source reporting this yet, but I heard a reference to the blogs on the mainstream media today, so it may percolate its way into encyclopedic status. See Pajamas Media Dec. 1, 2006(concervative) and RawStoryDec. 2, 2006 (liberal, reporting on the previous story). There are 946 Google hits for "orbital battle station" as of Dec. 4, 2006, so it is not yet of high notability even in the blogosphere. Edison 16:00, 4 December 2006 (UTC)