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While doing a search to answer this question, I only found pentagon responses assuring that the hydrazine tank exploded and no safety issues exist for land based people. Yet, what little I know about orbital mechanics is enough to question the judgement of blowing a zillion bits and pieces of a satellite and a missile apart in low earth orbit. I imagine these pieces, given the inertia and mass of the original satellite combined with the inertia and mass of the missile, would propel chunks out in all directions, kinda like a car crash leaves debris on a highway, but going in 3 dimensions and continuing to cause havoc to spacecraft, sorta like the rings around the outer planets caused by moon, comet and asteroid collision debris.

Any orbital mechanics out there care to give me their thoughts or calcs on the real result of this act by the military?

I thought that Britain was staunchly entrenched in the metric system, especially the military. When describing how far they were away from the Iranian waters when they were surrounded by the IRG, they said they were a mile and a quarter away. When describing the cells their captors held them in, they said the room was 8 feet by 6 feet. Just wondering who wrote their prepared statements.