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Saw this post on X which can be helpful when designing a scenario with all those coordinates:


Source: https://x.com/Object_Zero_/status/2008524560891588691

Quote:
Greenland - As viewed from a proper map
Why Greenland? Well because Moscow bases almost all of their strategic military assets on the Kola Peninsula next to Finland. This is where the Russian ICBM silos, submarine bases, and their strategic bombers are.

If you look at the flight path (ballistic or powered) from Kola to anywhere on the lower 48, then everything goes over Greenland. Greenland is the theatre where any strategic exchange between Washington and Moscow is contested.
If you want to intercept a ballistic missile, the best point to do so is at the apogee, at the top of the flight path. The shortest route for an interceptor to get to an apogee is from directly below the apogee.

That’s where Greenland is.

Thanks for sharing.

A correction to the rest of the info from that X post: there are no ICBM siloes on the Kola Peninsula. Many of them are deployed in Siberia, which at a glance of this graphic puts their flight paths over Canada. The forward operating bases from which strategic bombers would sortie towards the USA are strung all along the Arctic Circle. SSBNs are also deployed with the Pacific Fleet. Thus many missiles and aircraft would cross Canada and Alaska.

That post also implies that Greenland is somehow inaccessible to the US military, but it has been home to a ballistic missile early warning radar since the 1960s.

On a different note, land-based interceptors are only one part of the Golden Dome project. I wonder if the devs have any plans to add more* space-based weaponry (both anti-satellite and anti-ballistic missile) once more details become available about the systems being developed.

*A Rods from God satellite was added to DB3000 quite a while back. I have never used it.