The chief of the US Space Force has warned that China is putting military capabilities into space at a “mind-boggling” pace, significantly increasing the risk of warfare in orbit.
“The number of different categories of space weapons that [China has] created and … the speed with which they’re doing it is very threatening,” said General Chance Saltzman, head of space operations at the US military’s recently created force tasked with protecting American interests in space.
Haha, “Space Force.”
Wait. Is that for real their uniform? I thought that was a throw-away joke from the series.
Amazing what can happen when you neglect your space program for a generation.
Sucks to suck.
We’ve been spending the last generation funneling as much money to the oligarchs as possible. We’ve seen what that did/does to Russia’s capabilities and we’re somehow surprised that it works the same way here too.
We should fund military in space, says guy funded by military in space
To be fair, determining that is exactly his fucking job right? If not him, who?
NASA.
NASA’s job is not defense analysis.
No, it’s space administration. And they are the ones who actually know a thing about how spaceflight works, unlike this guy, evidently.
This guy probably knows a bit more about what’s going on on the Chinese Space Station than you do.
Edit: a downvote with no response is an admission that you don’t know what you’re talking about and just are making shit up.
This is what happens when you’re more concerned with genociding innocent people and making like 10 guys obscenely wealthy rather than doing anything useful.
You literally just described China.
I think the Space Force are looking for their own funding…
Lol, any orbital war would be extremely short lived due to the Kessler Syndrome. Tho the world’s leadership is definitely stubborn and dumb enough to not let such a silly thing like facts stop em.
missile gap
Space Force trying to justify why they exist.
Mozi sat is such a cool idea. https://spacenews.com/china-is-developing-a-quantum-communications-satellite-network/
Quantum entropy might even defeat timewave…
China spends a quarter of what the US does in military and somehow gets 5 times more accomplishments. This is either 1 a lie to get more spending or 2 gross mismanagement by the US
China certainly could be lying.
Half of the US states are purposely bankrupting their education systems to make sure that the 1 percenters are the only ones with any advantage. Even in the States that aren’t actively trying to stamp out education the poor and middle class can’t afford a respectable education.
China is sitting on a pile of natural resources and doesn’t have any problems with underpaying and working people to death.
They’re set up to do a lot with very little, they have a lot of people and resources and they’re not afraid to educate enough people to get the job done.
It’s not just space, they’re getting places with electric cars that we can’t touch.
It’ll be interesting to see where all this ends up.
Tons of information theft by china too. They stole plans too so many things it saved them billions
And western companies would never resort to corporate espionage would they?
5:1 is less than I’d have guessed on the money. We have a capitalism problem. Contractors dont charge an honest price, they charge every penny they can get away with. MIC is just a big money printing machine for a couple dozen companies.
That $45 hammer meme isn’t just a meme.
What are those accomplishments?
