J-2 intelligence report warns of new dangers to low earth orbit satellites.
China and Russia are developing anti-satellite missiles and other weapons and will soon be capable of damaging or destroying all U.S. satellites in low-earth orbit, according to the Pentagon's Joint Staff.
The Joint Staff intelligence directorate, known as J-2, issued the warning in a recent report on the growing threat of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons from those states, according to officials familiar with the assessment.
The report concludes that "China and Russia will be capable of severely disrupting or destroying U.S. satellites in low-earth orbit" in the next several years, said the officials.
The capability to attack low-earth orbit satellites could be in place by 2020, the officials said.
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Update: Pentagon Prepares For Next Global Conflict Which Could Start In Outer Space (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: No one would win in such a conflict. War in space will probably result in the dispersion of massive amounts of debris that will make space .... at least at the lower elevations .... impossible to use for decades.
