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| US Space Forces Deploying 2 New Weapons Systems to Jam Chinese and Russian Satellites |
| 2025-11-07 |
| [JapanTimes] The U.S. military is close to fielding two new weapons designed to jam Chinese and Russian intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites, giving the Pentagon three counter-space capabilities, according to new U.S. Space Force data. The weapons, called Meadowlands and the Remote Modular Terminal, will join a larger and less mobile "Counter Communications System” jammer — an upgraded big dish that was declared operational in 2020. The fresh systems will be dispersed worldwide and sometimes operated remotely, intended to counter what U.S. military officials are more stridently outlining as a growing Chinese space-based threat against U.S. forces. As of July, China has around 1,200 satellites in orbit. According to an unclassified Space Force "Space Threat Fact Sheet” updated in September, China's People’s Liberation Army (PLA) itself benefits "from over 510 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites with optical, multispectral, radar and radio frequency sensors." Those satellites allow the Chinese to detect U.S. aircraft carriers and expeditionary forces, the fact sheet said. "Intelligence suggests the PLA likely sees counter-space operations as a means to deter and counter U.S. military intervention in a regional conflict,” Space Force commander Gen. Chance Saltzman told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in April. |
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