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New details about China's space-weapons program have been released ahead of a congressional annual report outlining Beijing's plans to destroy or jam US satellites and limit American combat operations.
The final report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission examining China's programs, dubbed counterspace arms, is due to be published next month.
A late draft of the commission's annual report, obtained by Inside the Ring, states:
"China is pursuing a broad and robust array of counterspace capabilities, which includes direct-ascent anti-satellite missiles, co-orbital anti-satellite systems, computer network operations, ground-based satellite jammers and directed energy weapons. China’s nuclear arsenal also provides an inherent anti-satellite capability."
Update: New details of Chinese space weapons revealed (Washington Times)
WNU Editor: The Chinese are definitely pursuing a policy where if they do not have the "high ground", they will deny it to everyone else.
Update #2: China's star wars weapons include 'missile-loaded satellites able to crash into International Space Station' -- IBTimes
Update #3: China Space Weapons: New Details Reveal They Are Aimed To Attack U.S. Satellites, Ground Infrastructure -- HNGN
1 comment:
WNU Editor,
The U.S. started the militarization of Space, with the belief that no one else would ever have the capability. They believed the technological challenges would be too much for anyone else.
They never bothered to read their own SciFi.
In space just throwing rocks is as deadly as any other weapon.
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