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China Building Destructive Space Weapons to Blind U.S. Satellites, Intelligence Report Reveals
On 4/14/21 at 3:40 PM EDT
China is building destructive space weapons that will blind U.S. satellites, a new intelligence report has revealed.
In an annual threat assessment report released on Tuesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) stated that, China has already fielded ground-based [Anti-Satellite weapons] missiles intended to destroy satellites in [Low Earth Orbit] and ground-based ASAT lasers probably intended to blind or damage sensitive space-based optical sensors on LEO satellites.
The report assessed a multitude of threats to the U.S., ranging from issues like the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, terror organizations, weapons of mass destruction and nation-state competitors, like China and Russia.