China needs a “hard kill” weapon to destroy Elon Musk’s satellites, Starlink said, a state university with close ties to the country’s communist regime.
Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications called Starlink a threat to China’s national security because of its “huge potential for military applications.”
Starlink is Elon Musk’s global connectivity project, consisting of thousands of satellites in orbit combined with terrestrial terminals that provide users with high-speed Internet access.
In an article published in the Chinese journal Modern Defense Technology, the team of five scientists said Starlink could be used by the US military and called on China to develop weapons to destroy the Internet connection network. The document says: “It is necessary to further develop related technologies and develop disposal capabilities.
They added that China must “vigorously develop countermeasures” and be ready to “use a combination of soft and hard killing techniques” against the satellite network.
A translation of the document concludes that a push against Starlink is needed so that China can “maintain and gain space advantages in the brutal space game.” Starlink’s unique selling point is its ease of implementation, which led to the introduction of the technology in Ukraine when the Russian military bombed the country’s conventional telephone networks.
Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, said in March that Starlink was no longer a “purely civilian” technology after Mr Musk responded directly to requests from the Ukrainian government on Twitter for access to his satellites.
Mr Rogozin said: “I warned about this, but our muscophiles said he was the light of world astronautics. Look, he chose the country. ”
U.S. researchers have suggested using Starlink as an alternative to GPS, relying on satellite sync signals as an alternative to decades-old positioning systems that have long been considered a target for countries seeking to cripple Western military technology.
One possible scenario for China to attack Starlink could be during an invasion of Taiwan, where the United States is intervening to support the island nation.
On Monday, US President Joe Biden vowed to defend Taiwan if China invaded, comparing the prospect of a military attack to the war in Ukraine. He said the United States was “committed” to defending Taiwan, which mainland China describes as a breakaway province.
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