China believes that to deter an attack in, from and to space, its military must have the means to defeat opponent’s space forces and related infrastructure.Ĭhina’s “attack to deter” warfighting doctrine extends past the U.S. that can contest or deny an adversary’s access to and operations in the space domain.” These actions are supported by China’s unique view of deterrence in space. military space applications counterspace capabilities direct ascent, co-orbital, electronic warfare, and directed energy capabilities. The recent Department of Defense report on China indicates that Beijing is “growing all aspects of its. Unfortunately, the Department of Defense still appears to be stuck in a legacy mindset that is focused more on the impact to other space systems created by the post-attack debris generation rather than the fact that China and Russia can attack our vital space systems at will using their kinetic and non-kinetic weapons. This is a must do the alternative would be to leave our nation’s vital space assets vulnerable to attacks that would affect nearly every part of our modern way of life. Space Command, still lack credible options to deter and defeat ASAT attacks across all orbital regimes. Space Force and its warfighting counterpart, U.S. This has been a known problem for more than a decade, and yet the U.S. Since 2007, China and Russia have both demonstrated their kinetic ASAT technologies. However important the threat to astronauts, cosmonauts and other satellites in low Earth orbit, the fact of the matter is that this event is not the first time such an ASAT demonstration has been made. This demonstration of precision targeting by a ground-based anti-satellite weapon was widely decried due to its generation of a debris cloud that crossed paths with the orbit of the International Space Station. ![]() Recently, the Russian Federation conducted a successful missile launch that destroyed a defunct Kosmos electronic intelligence satellite.
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