Space Force official warns China and Russia deploying weaponized satellites to target US satellites like GPS

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Important Takeaways:

  • China, Russia deploying space weapons to attack U.S. satellites, warns Space Force chief
  • China’s military has deployed 347 satellites, including 35 launched in the past six months, to target U.S. forces in a future conflict, the commander of the Space Force told a Senate hearing
  • Space Force Gen. B. Chance Saltzman said Russia is also testing and deploying orbital anti-satellite weapons, extensive cyber capabilities and land-based anti-satellite missiles, electronic jammers and lasers.
  • The Chinese military also has several types of ground-launched missiles capable of hitting orbiting satellites.
  • A third space weapon of the Chinese is orbiting satellites that can grab and crush vulnerable craft from hostile nations.
  • China’s more advanced space warfare weapons pose “the most immediate threat” to attacks in space
  • Both “are intent on targeting perceived U.S. vulnerabilities and eliminating American advantage in the space domain,” the four-star general told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces hearing Tuesday

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