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>>12235726
Manned satellite interception was a serious possibility although with capsules the easiest way to do it would probably just be going on EVA and planting a few charges on the exterior. Ship-to-ship combat would be a lot harder.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151122033940/https://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/mol/794.pdf is a good resource if you wanna see what sort of ideas USAF/NRO had for eventual MOL development.

Polyus as built was way too heavy to go up on a Proton though. And it would need to be that big if you want to give it a decent power source for pewpew. You might wanna give the Soviets some ETS Vulkan-style rocket to work with for heavy lift.

>tfw for all mankind is gonna give us the same lame shuttle we got irl but won't give us top secret artificial gravity air force surveillance space station