China's People Liberation Army has deployed its submarine with a laser weapon installed in its midsection to counter military threats to Beijing including Elon Musk's Starlink which has been covering the space above the Earth with its satellites.
According to the South China Morning Post, China can destroy SpaceX’s Starlink satellites if China’s security is at risk.
In a study by People’s Liberation Army (PLA) scientists led by Wang Dan, a professor with the Naval Submarine Academy, said that for anti-satellite missions, the biggest challenge was not hitting the satellite, but hiding the attack as missile launches are often accompanied by long trails of smoke.
“Taking the satellites launched by the Starlink programme as an example, they are numerous, densely packed, and small in size, making the satellite network extremely resilient. Even if a significant number of satellites are destroyed, there are redundancies to replace them. Therefore, using missiles to attack such satellites is highly inefficient,” Wang’s team said in a peer-reviewed paper published last month in the Chinese-language journal, Command Control & Simulation.
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