>>12445523>no reason it can't do the same in the middle eastdue to launch readiness issues it would be impossible to hide that a starship is about to launch, it would be known days in advance.
a muslim kid with a cellphone and twitter could inform, if he also has access to an amateur telescope he can predict where its going to land aproximately.
It could be detected with the naked eye while incoming, not to mention with 1950s radars. It could also be taken down with 1950s anti air weapons, as a matter of fact it could be taken down with any 1950s weapon, or any weapon from the middle ages really as in order to be as performign as it is the vehicle is extremely weak against all forces except the ones its expected to comply.
Even something as simple as landing a car underneath it completely destroys it, not to mention if they are actually shooting at it. Its very feasible that the vheicle could be destroyed even accidentally unless its extremely far away from any important target or is landing inside an already extremely controlled zone in which case why bother?
military starship is a meme, the us already has capabilities to put essentially any kind of asset from a single agent to a full batallion anywhere in the world even with peace time readiness