Posted on 04/10/2007 11:46:32 AM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
China is developing an "impressive" array of space weapons, including missiles and jammers, and is moving toward placing nuclear weapons in space to attack U.S. satellites, the commander of U.S. strategic forces told the Senate yesterday.
The Chinese military has "undertaken what we would call a very disciplined and comprehensive continuum of capability against ... our space capabilities," Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright yesterday told the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee.
Their capabilities go "all the way from temporary and reversible effects -- [Global Positioning System] jamming, things like that, [communications] jamming, all the way through direct ascent ASAT," he said, referring to anti-satellite weapons. "Eventually, they'll probably be looking at co-orbital" weapons -- missiles that orbit near a satellite and then explode.
"Then, the one that you really worry about is introducing weapons of mass destruction into space on a missile," he said.
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And only one man is sounding the alarm bells against the chicoms now. Duncan Hunter.
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Don’t worry, it’s against international law to put nukes in space- the UN will stop them cold!
We can thank the clintons for a lot of Chinese progress in this area.
We can thank the clintons for a lot of Chinese progress in this area.
Yes, we all know how effective “international law” is. /s
Yawn. The 90s are over.
Are you serious?
It should take about 7 years to rise to the level of a Blue Ribbon Commission to dip its big toe into the water.
The masses won’t care until their Direct TV, Sirius radio and GPS navigation are knocked out and the stores won’t be able to process credit cards.
China is in the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty, so they are prohibited from placing nuke weapons in orbit. Should they place nuke weapons in orbit they will be matched and then some by the next day. It might be fun to have a space war so long as nobody gets hurt. Nights could be entertaining although possibly blinding.
That’s because the chicoms are our friends!!!
/sarcasm off
Matched by who? Who else has weapons designed to operate and activate from orbit?
What, that the 90s are over? I am.
That I am bored with blaming Clintoon like a broken record and not making any real suggestions as to what might actually be done?
Sure as heck I am bored with it. It is like writing “ At night it sure gets dark”.
Yeah. Never trust a communist. Any communist.
Kinda like Liberals (was going to say Democrats, but we seem to have our own in the Republican Party lately).
Nancy Pelosi. You might think she is nothing but a shawl on tour, but she deals from strength.
Nancy Pelosi. You might think she is nothing but a shawl on tour, but she deals from strength and no ChiCom space nukes are as tough to deal with as a family of grandchildren.
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