DIA director: China preparing for space warfare
Growing threat to United States
對美國日益嚴重的威脅
BY: Bill Gertz -
February 23, 2012 5:00 am
Translation by Autumnson Blog
國防情報局監督LTG羅納德·伯吉斯
Army Lt. Gen. Ronald L. Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, disclosed new details of China’s space weapons programs last week, including information regarding China’s anti-satellite missiles and cyber warfare capabilities.
國防情報局主管陸軍少將羅納德屬伯吉斯，上週披露中國太空武器計劃的新細節，包括資料有關中國的反衛星導彈和網絡戰能力。
Burgess stated in little-noticed written testimony prepared for an appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee that Beijing is developing missiles, electronic jammers, and lasers for use against satellites.
伯吉斯在為參議院軍事委員會出現前較少受人注意的書面證詞申明，北京正在研製導彈、電子干擾機、和針對衛星的激光使用。
Much of the space warfare activity is being carried out under the guise of China’s supposedly non-military space program, he said.
他說，太空戰爭的活動正以中國所謂的非軍事太空計劃的幌子下在進行中。
“The space program, including ostensible civil projects, supports China’s growing ability to deny or degrade the space assets of potential adversaries and enhances China’s conventional military capabilities,” Burgess said.
“太空計劃包括表面上是民用的項目，支持中國日益增長的能力來否認或降低潛在對手的空間資產，及增強中國的常規軍事能力，”伯吉斯說。
“China operates satellites for communications, navigation, earth resources, weather, and intelligence surveillance, and reconnaissance, in addition to manned space and space exploration missions,” he said.
“除了載人航天和空間探索任務，中國經營衛星作通信、導航、地球資源、天氣、和情報監視及偵察，”他說。
“China’s successfully tested a direct ascent anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) missile and is developing jammers and directed-energy weapons for ASAT missions,” he said. “A prerequisite for ASAT attacks, China’s ability to track and identify satellites is enhanced by technologies from China’s manned and lunar programs as well as technologies and methods developed to detect and track space debris.”
China’s January 2007 anti-satellite missile test involved a modified DF-21 missile that destroyed a Chinese weather satellite. The blast created a debris field in space of some 10,000 pieces of space junk that could damage both manned and unmanned spacecraft.
For the U.S. military, the successful 2007 ASAT test represented a new strategic capability for China. Analysts estimate that with as many as two-dozen ASAT missiles, China could severely disrupt U.S. military operations through attacks on satellites.
Burgess said China rarely admits that its space program has direct military uses and refers to nearly all satellite launches as scientific or civil.
Additionally, Burgess said Chinese state-run enterprises “continue to proliferate space and counter-space related capabilities,” including some with direct military applications.
For example, China’s Beidou global positioning system satellites will be available for regional users this year and globally by 2020, he said.
The satellites will provide foreign militaries with precision targeting capabilities through purchases of Chinese Beidou receivers and services.
The system will provide foreign militaries with “greater redundancy and independence in a conflict scenario that employs space assets,” he said.
The Chinese, as well as the Russians, are also developing space capabilities that interfere with or disable U.S. space-based navigation, communications, and intelligence satellites.
Moreover, North Korea has demonstrated its ability to disrupt U.S. navigational capabilities through Soviet-made electronic jammers placed on vehicles near the North-South demarcation line that, when activated, were able to disrupt U.S. Global Positioning System signals up to 62 miles away.
http://freebeacon.com/dia-director-china-preparing-for-space-warfare/
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