SDF ordered to shoot down N Korean satellite if it falls on Japan

Any more great, common-sense ideas?!

Best to shoot it down before it falls on Japan. If it falls in Japan's territorial waters or EEZ, try to retreive it.

no reason that the satellite fall in japan. NK is much more advanced than japan..

Japanese stupid provocation as usual.

Shoot I t down n dotb surprised to find every part of the satellite is made in China as NK has China tech only

Excuse me if I'm wrong,but if the satellite was hit over Japanese territory, wouldn't the fragments cause more widespread damage than if the satellite crashed in one piece?

It all depends on what kind of dodgy crap it is made with. It might be safer to let all the bits to burn up in the atmosphere after blowing it up rather than let a great big chunk of it full of god knows what fall to earth.

The article is a bit confusing, as evidenced by the confused comments.

It starts off describing the thing as a satellite, then in 3rd and 4th paragraph it's referred to as a ballistic missile.

In the last paragraph, it's described again as a spy satellite.

Can't be both. So is it a spy satellite that is falling out of orbit or is it another of NK's test ballistic missiles that may or may not be armed with a conventional or nuclear warhead?

Whichever it is, I doubt anyone wants it falling on potentially inhabited areas. So attempting to shoot it down in Japan's territorial waters is probably a good idea.

Anyone on here got a better idea? Asking for a friend.......

Title is incorrect: if the satellite falls, you cannot shoot it down. It has already fallen. It took me a while to understand the intended meaning: if the satellite enters japanese territory, SDF will shoot it down.

Great, hopefully it would be at a remote area near border that fallen debris wouldn’t hurt anyone.

They will need to have many meetings and get everyone to agree, but no one to take responsibility. By that time its already landed. Not to mention all the debris that will fall. So they'll have to choose where to bring it down. So they'll need another meeting for that and bring their Hanko to confirm the order.

Stop that Abe234, I’m busting a gut laughing

NationalSDF ordered to shoot down N Korean satellite if it falls on Japan

Soldier:

”Shoot down N. Korean satellite. Check. What about Russian, Chinese or South Korean satellites?”

Hamada:

“Silence!!! Stick to the protocol, soldier! Don’t make me think if I don’t have to! I only come up with obvious statements.”

Shoot the damn thing down no matter where it's heading.

Shoot it down?

If it falls on Japan?

How...?

How does one shoot something down if it has already fallen down?

Should it not be phrased, "Shoot it down just before it falls on Japan?"

Is the village idiot in charge,if the satellite reach orbit their is nothing Japanese can do ,spy satellite generally have stable orbit of predictions,unless it in a geostationary orbit,like Japanese GPS satellite near Australia,even one hover near Tokyo in transit is a figure 8 orbit

Satellite falls - one big crater.

Shoot the satellite. Lots of bits fall across a wide area, each big enough to kill people.

Might want to rethink that.

I'd love to know how having soldiers stationed near you is going to prevent a big bit of metal falling on your head.

Tesla got 10 of thousands satellite orbiting around the earth

Tesla got 10 of thousands satellite orbiting around the earth

Incorrect. SpaceX owns the satellites, not Tesla. Two completely different companies.

It isn't like checking facts is hard.

https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-train-how-to-see-and-track-it

As of April 2023, there are 3,912 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 3,866 are operational

About 4000 isn't the same as "10 of thousands" to most people.

Who understands that? Not shooting down any of the potentially threatening ballistic missiles, but now shooting down a spy satellite which otherwise could give some valuable technical or intelligence insights? I would probably understand to shoot down everything if it is not exactly distinguishable, but so?

"should it fall in Japanese territory". lololol You can't make this stuff up. Maybe he's talking about one of the North Korea missiles and in the event that it malfunctions and enter Japanese airspace then shoot it down.

Maybe the original article in Japanese makes more sense. Maybe not.

When Starlink satellites are retired they are de-orbitted and burn up in the atmosphere.

Also, lets figure way for SDF to shoot down new NK nuclear bomb drone submarines, more weapons tech that Russia's proliferated to NK, while we're at it!

NK will be 'testing' their multiple warhead hypersonic missiles soon, courtesy of Russia naturally, global proxy war dividends, so SDF better step it up a notch ASAP!