He German Defense Minister Boris Pistoriuswarned of the accelerated expansion of War capabilities of China and Russia in spaceso he advocated intensifying the defense of Germany, Europe and NATO also in this area.
“Russia and China have extended in recent years their war capabilities in space: They can interfere with satellites, dazzle them, manipulate them or destroy them kinetically. In space there are no borders or continents. There, Russia and China are our direct neighbors, “he said in the Third Space Congress of the Federal Association of the German Industry (BDI) in Berlin.
The German Defense Minister has also commented, that “interference attacks” not only are directed against the armed forces of a certain country, but against the economy and society as a whole, in addition to critical infrastructureas they are seeing different European airports, the last one in Denmark. Or when before the beginning of the Russian war in Ukraine in February 2022 there was a Russian cyber attack against the Satellite Network ‘Viasat’ that paralyzed much of communications.
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The German minister, in addition, stressed that “Russia and China already occupy important strategic hills and mountains in space. While I speak here we can fly a total of a total period of 39 Chinese and Russian recognition satellites. The results of the observation are transmitted in real time. “In addition, he added that” if we transferred these tactical procedures to the Air Force, we could talk about Air Combat Exercises”.
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