Moscow, Beijing eye space weapons

It wouldn’t bother the Chief so bad if they were JUST eyeing space weapons…of course they are already beyond THAT stage.

China and Russia are developing space weapons and are among several nations working on systems to threaten U.S. satellites with lasers or missiles, says the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

In Senate testimony last week, Army Lt. Gen. Michael Maples for the first time raised Pentagon concerns about secret Chinese and Russian space weapons programs.

It must be getting pretty bad, if they are admitting it in public.

“Russia and China continue to be the primary states of concern regarding military space and counterspace programs,” Gen. Maples said at the annual threat briefing of the Senate intelligence committee Gen. Maples said that “several countries continue to develop capabilities that have the potential to threaten U.S. space assets, and some have already deployed systems with inherent anti-satellite capabilities, such as satellite-tracking laser range-finding devices and nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.”

Hmmm. Russia and China are “the primary states of concern”…one has to wonder who the secondary states of concern might be. (Iran? North Korea?)

Both Russia and China deny that they are building space weapons and have sought to curb U.S. space defenses through a proposed international ban on weapons in space.

Of COURSE not! “Nothing to see here, right? Go back to sleep!”

You can believe as much of that as you want to…as for the Chief, he wouldn’t trust the ChiComs and the neo-Soviet Putin government as far as they could be thrown.