WASHINGTON - The new US Space Force is building an arsenal of as many as 48 ground-based weapons over the next seven years designed to temporarily jam Russian or Chinese communications satellite signals in the opening hours of a conflict.
"Nothing else we're doing in Space Force is offensive in nature, where we are actually going after an adversary," said Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Brogan, a unit head in the combat systems branch of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Centre, which is managing development and procurement. Weaponising space US defence officials long spoke against turning space into a battlefield, much less fielding weapons that could demolish targets and add more hazardous space debris.
The new jamming system can be used early in a conflict and won't create"space junk" because it emits energy designed to cause temporary,"reversible" interference, Lt-Col Brogan said. "There are going to be those - let's call them 'US competitors' - who will find the development of any explicit counterspace system to be inflammatory and provocative, whether it is reversible or not," said Ms Victoria Samson, the Washington director of the Secure World Foundation, which publishes an annual overview of military space activities.
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