The U.S. military will deploy three new anti-satellite weapons to address space challenges from China and Russia.

The U.S. military's anti-satellite weapons targeting China and Russia will increase to three types

According to the latest data from the U.S. Space Force, the U.S. military will soon deploy two new types of weapons aimed at temporarily interfering with China and Russia's intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance satellites.

Bloomberg reported that the two new anti-satellite systems are named "Meadowlands" and "Remote Sensing Terminals," which will be used in conjunction with the currently deployed larger but less maneuverable "Counter Communications System," increasing the Pentagon's anti-space warfare capabilities to three.

The report stated that the new systems will be deployed globally and sometimes operated remotely to address the increasingly clear emphasis by the U.S. military on the growing space threat posed by China.

The U.S. Space Force's "Space Threat Fact Sheet" shows that as of July this year, China had approximately 1,200 satellites in orbit, of which the People's Liberation Army can utilize more than 510 equipped with optical, multispectral, radar, and radio frequency sensors for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance satellites. These Chinese satellites are capable of detecting U.S. aircraft carriers and expeditionary forces.

China's Ministry of National Defense spokesperson said in November last year that the U.S. claiming so-called "Chinese space threats" to deploy anti-satellite weapons is completely a case of turning right and left upside down, and stealing while crying out. The United States defines space as a "theater of operations," continuously expanding its space military power, forming a space military alliance, promoting the militarization of space, seriously threatening the common security and development interests of countries in space. Facts have repeatedly proven that the United States is the greatest threat to space security and the biggest driver of the space arms race.

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