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Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:12:02 AM
Quoted from reports of US Army (2004)
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Air force and US administration officials insist that these measures, which the former call offensive counterspace activities, are necessary to protect the US and its friends and not synonymous with stationing weapons in orbit or destroying satellites.
“Some people tend to erroneously equate offensive counterspace with a weaponisation of space or space weapons,” said Lieutenant General Dan Leaf, vice commander of Air Force Space Command. “That is just wholly inaccurate and very naive.”
Instead, the service speaks of using terrestrial-based systems to cause “temporary and reversible effects” to disable an adversary’s space assets. They would inflict no lasting damage to spacecraft and create no debris in orbit.
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Air force and US administration officials insist that these measures, which the former call offensive counterspace activities, are necessary to protect the US and its friends and not synonymous with stationing weapons in orbit or destroying satellites.
“Some people tend to erroneously equate offensive counterspace with a weaponisation of space or space weapons,” said Lieutenant General Dan Leaf, vice commander of Air Force Space Command. “That is just wholly inaccurate and very naive.”
Instead, the service speaks of using terrestrial-based systems to cause “temporary and reversible effects” to disable an adversary’s space assets. They would inflict no lasting damage to spacecraft and create no debris in orbit.
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