Star Wars are already close: Chinese "Space Stalkers"

Focus has translated the geopolitical analytics of Brandon J. Weikhrt about future conflicts in outer space. First, let's talk about the importance of space as a strategic area of ​​fighting. Although the Armed Forces of China and/or Russia would hardly overcome the US armed forces in the Convention War, the use of unconventional tactics - first of all, the destruction of US space remedies - would make the US army on earth as a deaf, dumb and blind.

That is why Chinese corebital satellites were in space in space. They have worked out coordination maneuvers in the event that Beijing decides that the continued existence under the constant threat to the US military advantage is simply unacceptable. At this point, Beijing will first destroy key American satellites in space before even thinking about struck elsewhere on Earth, such as Taiwan.

By depriving the Americans during the war, the Chinese (or Russians) will be able to defeat the United States by avoiding the entire power of the US army on Earth. They could simply immobilize Americans from space. This is the concept of "Space Pearl Harbor". A co -sponging satellite, or Space Stalker, is a satellite, usually faster, smaller and cheaper than American satellites that can attack these more expensive American systems.

These "cosmic stalkers" are equipped with different functions - for example, captivated claws that help them cling to the target satellite and either physically disabled it, or pushing it out of orbit, sending to the fall towards the ground, or, as the Russians showed the ros. to the western satellite and from it. During the 2014 incident, the Russians successfully tested their capabilities against the French spy satellite in low Earth orbit.

Low Earth orbit has several major American and allied observation systems that the Chinese would like to fail. Moreover, in 2021, the Chinese demonstrated the ability to derive the Space Stalker's corbital satellites into a distant but important geosynchronous (GSO) orbit around the Earth. In this remote orbit are the most important American satellites. HSO was chosen as the location of these systems during the Cold War, when virtually no one could threaten key American satellites here.

In 2021, the Shijian-21 Chinese apparatus demonstrated the ability to track American satellites on GSO. Even at such a distance from Earth, Chinese space stalker will not be difficult to sabotage sensitive American systems in such a high orbit. The most important satellite groups, such as Nuclear Command, Communication and Control (NC3), Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) and Mobile-user Objective System (MuOS), turn around the Earth on the Earth.

China can easily impair the coordination of the US Navy warships by disrupting the MUOS grouping, or depriving the army with the ability to apply long -range synchronous blows on Earth by destroying WGS groups. By sending their satellites to Dogfight, China can even harm America's most powerful nuclear triad by damaging NC3 satellites. Although this is the extreme step from China, the decision of Beijing to invade Taiwan, breaking the regional order, it is in itself an extreme step.

Nadiya China will depend on his ability to prevent his ability to prevent American power. Anti -cosmic attacks can be one of these methods using Space Stalker. It is necessary to completely rethink the satellite architecture of America. To begin with, according to Brian G. Chou, the US space forces need to develop and deploy its own co -operative satellites. However, instead of attacking Chinese or Russian satellites, American corebital satellites could be used as guardian satellites.

As the name implies, these corebital systems could physically protect sensitive American satellites from Space Stalker attacks. In a broader sense, Americans should modernize the methods of developing and deploying satellites for the Armed Forces as a whole. Pentagon seeks to be as high as possible in separate satellites, significantly increasing their weight and complexity (and therefore the cost) of these systems. For many critical military satellites, there are very few spare parts.

This is another important reason why both China and Russia are designed to destroy these satellites: the destruction of American systems in space will not only make American armed forces on Earth deaf, dumb and blind - the Pentagon will not be able to easily and timely replace these systems. Washington should be adopted by SpaceX Starlink. By placing small and simple satellites in large groups, Starlink paved the way to the future development of satellites.

These systems are difficult to destroy, and in the event of their loss relative simplicity and small size allow SpaceX company to easily and inexpensive them without interruption. This model should be taken into service by the US military. Meanwhile, cosmic forces need to take active measures to protect more effective groups from Chinese "cosmic stalkers", which will lead "dogfights" with American satellites and will undoubtedly defeat them, and therefore, the Americans on Earth will be defeated.

The Space War has already begun. It is not similar to the one that is often depicted in popular scholarships and television series. But unlike these fictional wars, real space wars will have serious consequences for the existence of the United States as a dominant world state. Brandon J. Weikhert is a national security analyst, a former Congress employee and a geopolitical analyst who writes for The Washington Times, Asia Times and The-Pipeline.