Assessment of Chinese anti-satellite technology...
United States military sees China threat in satellites
Thursday, August 16, 2007 - China may be just three years away from being able to disrupt U.S. military satellites in a regional conflict, a senior U.S. military leader said Tuesday, citing a recent anti-satellite test and other advances.
[/quote]The warning came amid calls at a conference in Huntsville, Alabama for intensified efforts to ensure U.S. "space superiority" in the wake of China's shoot-down January 11 of one of its own satellites with a ballistic missile. "It is not inconceivable that within about three years we can be challenged at a near peer level in a region," said Lieutenant General Kevin Campbell, head of the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command.
"That means taking out a number of communications capabilities over a theater of war," he added in a speech to defense contractors. Campbell later told reporters that while a number of countries have some capabilities to interfere with satellite communications, China is the one he is most worried about. He said its anti-satellite test in January was a clear demonstration of its ability to destroy an orbiting satellite.
But China also is developing satellite jamming capabilities and has made advances in computer network attack skills that point to a comprehensive approach to denying the U.S. military access to space in a conflict, he said. "It starts to add up that they'll have multi-dimensional capabilities to attack various systems that are in orbit today," he said.
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