Russia and China elevate satellite-destroying capabilities

Moscow and Beijing are sharing intelligence, orchestrating joint strategies, and investing ever greater sums into capabilities to destroy or disrupt military satellites, the Indo-Pacific Defense Forum warned yesterday. Those capabilities include co-orbital satellites capable of impeding other nations’ satellites, electronic warfare systems for jamming communications, and ground-based infrastructure, such as directed-energy weapons that disrupt optical sensors hundreds of miles above. The Trumpet has long warned of the stratospheric danger of America’s reliance—specifically that of its military—on computer technologies that are highly vulnerable to enemy attack.