The practice of spilling liquid oxygen to an airstrip in large enough quantities is pretty utopistic. The military standard practice to get rid of
excess airstrips is to fire low altitude cruise missiles from 300mi away, or drop supersonic bombs from 50000ft from a stealth bomber. Chinese are
mastering the fractional orbital bombardment, where you have a minimum range of 40 000 km. Even the poor countries have artillery, and the poorest
have mortars. Compare that to the need to get within throwing range and having tons of highly compressed and/or cryogenic oxidizer ready to combust
anything that can burn. |