Space chief warns of emerging threats from China and Russia

Surging technologies spearheaded by Chinese and Russian forces represent the greatest threat in space defense, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman said Thursday at the POLITICO Security Summit.

“The PRC has developed what we’ve kind of, you know, tongue in cheek, called a ‘kill web,’ and it’s nothing more than a series of hundreds of satellites that are a sensor network that provide real-time updates, targeting quality information of our force,” Saltzman said, warning that the strategy represents the biggest threat in U.S. adversaries’ growing space capabilities.

Saltzman emphasized the need to bolster U.S. capacity to disrupt the satellite network, saying it most acutely affects the Indo Pacific region.

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