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Originally Posted by dylan
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I think it was probably a good thing that the launch of Polyus failed, and I think Gorbachev who was at the launching in Baikonur was privately glad too as he forbade its testing even if the launch had been successful. Prototype or not, a laser armed spaceship in orbit designed to destroy American and NATO satellites would have been way to provocative. God knows how much funding America would have pumped into its military space programme.