MUNICH - Space has “fundamentally changed” in a just a few years due to a growing arms race, a United States general said, singling out China as the “most challenging threat”, followed by Russia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MUNICH - Space has “fundamentally changed” in a just a few years due to a growing arms race, a United States general said, singling out China as the “most challenging threat”, followed by Russia.
“We have to account for the fact that space as a contested domain has fundamentally changed. The character of how we operate in space has to shift, and that’s mostly because of the weapons and Russia have tested and in some cases operationalised,” he said. Since then, the US’ rivals have been seeking to show they can compete – China did the same in 2007, and India in 2019.
“Adversaries are leveraging space... targeting and extending the range of their weapons,” said General Saltzman.Countries are increasingly secretive when it comes to their military activities in space but the race is such that in 2019, the year that the Pentagon launched its Space Force, it predicted that Russia and China could potentially overtake the US.
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