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The Chinese military has taken action to develop weapons that can destroy Starlink satellites produced by SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, to protect ‘national security’.
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While the conflicts in Ukraine continue at full speed, the weapons and systems put into use reveal the transformation of the war.
In the first weeks of the war, Mykhailo Fedorov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, SpaceX‘in CEO’su Elon MuskHe had asked Ukraine to provide Starlink stations and satellite internet access to Ukraine.
Starlink is a satellite constellation system operated by Musk-owned SpaceX company, which includes thousands of satellite relays in low earth orbit that can beam high-speed internet data anywhere on Earth.
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Musk responded positively to this call, and Ukraine, which had fast internet access, gained a significant advantage from the ‘information war’.
Regarding Starlink available in Ukraine ChineseA remarkable move came from.
PLANS TO DESTROY THE SYSTEM
According to the news in the British Daily Mail newspaper, Chinese military researchers are planning to destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system if Beijing sees it as a threat to Chinese national security.
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In the article published in the past weeks, it was stated that China should develop capabilities to monitor and, if necessary, destroy each Starlink satellite in Earth orbit.
The study was led by Ren Yuanzhen, a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Monitoring and Telecommunications.
The following statements were included in the article published in the local peer-reviewed journal Modern Defense Technology;
‘A combination of soft and hard annihilation must be applied to cause some Starlink satellites to lose their functionality and destroy the constellation’s operating system.’
Beijing is looking for cost-effective ways to destroy thousands of satellites, the Daily Mail reported.
AGREEMENT WITH US DEFENSE
SpaceX, on the other hand, signed a contract with the US Department of Defense to develop military uses.
In this context, SapceX will work with the US Department of Defense to use the Starlink platform for military purposes, including the development of precision instruments that can detect and track hypersonic weapons moving at five times the speed of sound in the Earth’s atmosphere.
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TARGET HYPERSONIC MISSILES
The US Air Force Command announced in the past months that they are testing a hypersonic weapon that reaches 5 times the speed of sound.
The test in question took place after the introduction of similar weapons developed by Russia and China.
After China’s hypersonic missile test, evaluations were made that the USA lagged behind its competitors in this area.
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