CNBC:
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) this week made an extensive report public about military expansion in space, especially focusing on the increasing “weaponization of space” by China and Russia.
DIA, which acts as the Pentagon’s top intelligence arm, explains in detail “key counterspace concepts” in the report, including: Cyberspace threats, “directed energy weapons,” and threats to orbital space systems. Both China and Russia, according to the intelligence report, are developing these capabilities – from laser weapons to ground-based anti-satellite missiles.
In October, CNBC learned that a never-before-seen Russian missile was a mock-up of an anti-satellite weapon that will be ready for warfare by 2022. Images of the mysterious missile on a modified Russian MiG-31, a supersonic near-space interceptor, appeared in mid-September.
