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Blog Editor’s Note: Yep. And they can probably ‘blind and deafen’ the homeland as well.
The report mentioned below is “2022 Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China.”
A couple of quotes:
“PLA EW units routinely train to conduct jamming and anti-jamming operations against multiple communication and radar systems and Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite systems during force-on-force exercises.”
“The PRC has also launched multiple anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles that are able to destroy satellites and developed mobile jammer to deny SATCOM and GPS.”
China rapidly building space arms to ‘blind and deafen’ U.S. military, Pentagon says
China’s military is rapidly building a large force of space weapons, including sophisticated anti-satellite missiles, lasers, jammers, orbiting killer robots and cyber tools, designed to “blind and deafen” the American military in a future war, the U.S. military is warning.
New details of Beijing’s growing space arms arsenal were revealed the Pentagon’s latest annual report to Congress on the Chinese military, released publicly on Tuesday.
“The [People’s Liberation Army] continues to acquire and develop a range of counter-space capabilities and related technologies, including kinetic-kill missiles, ground-based lasers, and orbiting space robots, as well as expanding space surveillance capabilities, which can monitor objects in space within their field of view and enable counter-space actions,” the 195-page report states.
