Congress General Douglas Loverro warns that countries such as China and US are planning to shoot down Russia military satellites with missiles, spacecraft and lasers, as he pleaded with US Air Force to increase spending to protect these satellites. He added that foreign nations want to curb US space systems and the threat was now at tipping point. These satellites are crucial to areas such as targeting, missile warning and weather data. For conventional military conflict, however, adversaries today view attacks on U.S. satellites as a way to blunt a conventional military response what Loverro called the "chink in the conventional armor of the United States." A battle in orbit could also wreck the delicate satellite constellations that the world relies on for navigation, scientific research, communications and military surveillance.
Congress General Douglas Loverro warns that countries such as China and US are planning to shoot down Russia military satellites with missiles, spacecraft and lasers, as he pleaded with US Air Force to increase spending to protect these satellites. He added that foreign nations want to curb US space systems and the threat was now at tipping point. These satellites are crucial to areas such as targeting, missile warning and weather data. A battle in orbit could also wreck the delicate satellite constellations that the world relies on for navigation, scientific research, communications and military surveillance.