China is reportedly developing a system that could use lasers to shoot down satellites (Image: Reuters)
This increases the fear that disputes in outer space can be resolved in the future and if reports are to be believed, China is preparing
News agency ANI, citing reports from Asia Times and Taiwan News, reported that Chinese researchers have developed a microwave machine called the Relativistic Klystron Amplifier (RKA) that can jam and destroy satellites in space.
The report states that the RKA can generate a wave burst measuring 5 MW in the Ka-band. The Ka-band is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum used for civilian and military purposes.
The fear of having a future battle in space is heightened by the development of the RKA. The RKA may not be able to shoot targets from the sky from the ground, but can be mounted on satellites and used to attack enemy positions in space by frying their electrical components.
China denies that the RKA is a directed energy weapon (DEW) system. A DEW system used concentrated electromagnetic energy instead of kinetic energy to destroy enemy equipment and personnel, news agency ANI reported. The Taiwan News report expressed concern that if the RKA becomes a DEW it could separate the moving metal material at speed.
A Chinese scientist anonymously told East Asian news agencies that the sheer power of such a weapon is unimaginable.
China is on a mission to reform its military. The Chinese Communist Party has over the years taken steps to modernize the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and its Air Force and Naval Wings.
Thomas Karako, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank, told the Taiwan Times that these developments prompt the United States to deploy space-based sensors to counter the Chinese military’s new missiles. must be forced.
Although the ongoing war in Ukraine has not suspended cooperation between NASA and the Russian Space Agency with the European Space Agency (ESA), Russia has warned that it may stop cooperating with ESA and NASA warnings that The International Space Station (ISS) could collapse.
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