do we ? how much of a threat is that to USA's military ? Don't their missles use our GPS satellites ?
2007-03-05 10:34:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The US and the Russians already have this technology in the 80s. So this technology is nothing new. Yes, China does have that capability, and yes it would be a HUGE threat to the US military because just about every smart weapon that the US has depends on GPS. Cruise Missiles wont work. JDAMS, tactical ballistic weapons, and more. The US would have to resort to carpet bombing again. It would knock the US military back at least 20 years.
2007-03-05 18:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by PackLover 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES, the spy satellites of course fly lower than others. One of the big problems is the idea of the fragments staying in orbit and acting as shrapnel to other satellites. Of course the idea has always been to keep weapons out of space, but the rest of the world has no oversight of what China or any other nation puts up there, so there may already be space-based weapons and satellite killers in orbit. They have been blinding the US spy satellites with lasers. For all the hoopla over that, in the early 1990's a Russian "fishing trawler" (surveilance vessel) off the Washington coast blinded an American fighter pilot with a laser and he had to eject as a result (blinded), but that got little attention. China makes most of our stuff these days, and since tehy had the run of Los Alamos and most of our major labortories and universities, I doubt we have any technological secrets from them, I don't think they are relying on our GPS satellites because we could shut them down to deprive them of their use.
2007-03-05 18:43:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do, they shot down one 2 weeks ago.
Yes, hopefully we have a whole "Star Wars" system in place
It is a threat, but I am sure that we are working on combating it
2007-03-05 18:43:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Best think about some other issues. I would not like to say. Let's just get on with each other on here and hope the world follows suit.
2007-03-05 18:43:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only our missiles use our GPS satellites they are encrypted and can be scrambled during wartime.
2007-03-05 18:41:25 · answer #5 · answered by KBAMFS 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, And Yes. If your town has a newspaper, you would already know this.
We still have accuracy in our favor, but the chinese have proved their point. (laser communications, anybody?)
2007-03-05 18:45:06 · answer #6 · answered by rick m 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Yes.
A major threat.
No, they have their own.
2007-03-05 18:40:49 · answer #7 · answered by Timothy M 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋