Fuck China, Everything has being used in military now and future!!!
Remember it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Part 1
"China performed a successful anti-satellite weapons test" last week, according toAviation Week. In the trial, a ballistic missile, armed with a non-explosive warhead, "destroy[ed] an aging Chinese weather satellite target" over 500 miles above the Earth, U.S. intelligence agencies believe.
The news comes just
a few months after reports of China testing high-powered lasers totemporarily blind American
orbiters. "If the test is verified it will signify a major new Chinese
military capability,"AvWeeksays. And it could be the spark that
ignites an arms race in space, analysts believe. Theresa Hitchens, with
theCenter for Defense Informationcalled it an
"irresponsible and self-defeating act" that will give "space hawks⦣128;? more
ammunition to take the United States down a similarly dangerous
path."
Details emerging from space sources indicate that the Chinese Feng Yun 1C (FY-1C) polar orbit weather satellite... was attacked by an ASAT [anti-satellite] system launched from or near the Xichang Space Center.
The attack is believe to have occurred as the weather satellite flew at 530 mi. altitude 4 deg. west of Xichang, located in Sichuan province...
Although intelligence agencies must complete confirmation of the test, the attack is believed to have occurred at about 5:28 p.m. EST Jan. 11. U. S. intelligence agencies had been expecting some sort of test that day, sources said....
USAF radar reports on the ChineseFY-1Cspacecraft have been posted once or twice daily for years, but those reports jumped to about 4 times per day just before the alleged test.
The USAF radar reports then ceased Jan. 11, but then appeared for a day showing "signs of orbital distress". The reports were then halted again. The Air Force radars may well be busy cataloging many pieces of debris, sources said.
Harvard University's Jeffrey Lewis, a self-admitted skeptic about China's space ambitions, has been hearing from many sources in recent months that "China⦣128;™s ASAT work seem[s] to have been ramping up." He writes over at his blog,Arms Control Wonk:
If China has conducted an ASAT test, this is extremely bad. I had been hoping that the Bush Administration would push for a ban on anti-satellite testing, either in the form of a code of conduct. The Bush folks, however, have been fond of saying that wasn⦣128;™t necessary, because 'there is no arms race in space.'
Well, we have one now, instigated by an incredibly short-sighted Chinese government.
PART 2:
Concerns persist
over Chinese anti-satellite test: US
military
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by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Nov 20, 2007
US concerns about China's military buildup have only been
heightened by a Chinese anti-satellite test in January that has yet to be
explained, the top US military leader said Tuesday.
Admiral Michael Mullen, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he raised the test with Chinese leaders when he visited the country in August, as have other senior US officials.
"It speaks to a higher level of concern that many of us in the United States have about what is the strategic intent of the investment, the high tech investment the Chinese government is making with respect to its military capability in the future," Mullen said.
"That test is a great example of creating a question that hasn't been answered yet," he told reporters at the Foreign Press Center here.
China used a ballistic missile to intercept and destroy one of its own ageing weather satellites in low Earth orbit on January 11 in a test that demonstrated the vulnerability of US satellites.
Senior US military officials have said the test was a wake-up call and that China will be able to disrupt US military communications in a conflict within three years.
Chinese officials have responded to US questions about the test with bland assurances that it was not hostile and posed no threat, US officials have said.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised his concerns about the test with Chinese military leaders when he visited Beijing earlier this month, but said there was no further discussion of it.