Russia and China have developed a more sophisticated space countermeasure weapons to destroy US satellites, according to a new report.
The evidence “strongly indicates” that “China supports all the efforts necessary to develop a wide range of counter space capabilities”, the US-based secure world Foundation said in its report for April 2018. “China has at least one, and possibly three of the program is” to destroy satellites, the report said.
Moscow “is almost certainly capable of some limited” anti-satellite military operation, the report said. Russian ground-based lasers may also be able to “dazzle the sensors of satellites, optical imagery,” even if this is not the main goal of the Russian satellite laser ranging facilities, the global counter-space capabilities, the report said.
The President of the United States Donald trump proposed the idea of creating a “space forces”, although the White house and U.S. air force have shot down in Congress attempts to create a “space corps” and primarily because this will add another layer of bureaucracy of the Pentagon.
“You know, I said this the other day because we do a huge amount of work in space. I said, ‘maybe we need a new force, we shall call it a cosmic power,” the President said. “And I wasn’t very serious, and then I said that many of the ideas we might have to do it. What could have happened. This could be a great story,” said trump during a speech on March 13 in San Diego.
In March, “2018 Worldwide On the threat assessment of the Intelligence community of the United States” said that “foreign countries — especially China and Russia — will continue to expand its space reconnaissance, communication and navigation in time of the number of satellites, the breadth of their capabilities and applications to use them… Russia and China to seek non-destructive and destructive counter-space weapons that are available for use during a possible future conflict.”
Sourse: sputniknews.com
