The bottom line, according to DIA is that space "is being increasingly militarized" around the globe, and the threats to US military and commercial space activities continue to grow, from ground-based ASAT tests, to ISR fleets, to deep space hiding places.
The agreement was announced just a day after a North Korean missile test and months after the eye-opening Chinese test of a fractional orbital bombardment system.
WASHINGTON: Breaking Defense is honored to count among its readers key policymakers, practitioners and top industry officials in the sprawling world of defense those in the know, for whom JADC2 is not some inscrutable acronym but something totally logical to say to one another. With that comes a great gift for reporters: we are less concerned about general traffic and more concerned about who our readers are. But every now and then a story hits a more general nerve and readers the world over are drawn to some original, in-depth reporting or analysis on the critical topics of the day. The list below is a reflection of the latter, the most popular stories on the site for 2021. Popular perhaps because the story explains a complex subject clearly and authoritatively (the Chinese FOBS story), breaks fresh news (potential declassification of a space weapon) or for far less serious reasons (looking at you, DARPA turducken). China’s J-35 carrier fighter appears; Step to ‘most powerful na