This is the first weapon of attack of the US Space Force

It is on the list of 48 weapons that will be published in the next 7 years, with the purpose of temporarily interfering with Russian or Chinese communication satellite signals.

The first system, manufactured by L3Harris Technologies, was announced to be operational last month. This was the result of years of development and the Space Force received 16 aircraft. The company is also developing a new system, called Meadowland, which is lighter in weight, capable of updating software so it can jam more frequencies.

Melbourne-based L3Harris Technologies, which developed four Meadowland systems, is expected to ship around October 2022.

According to a January 2020 report by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Russia and China are building a satellite network to monitor the country and the Space Force's jamming system appears to be created to counter Again this.

Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Brogan, one of the heads of the combat system of the Air Force Space and Space System Center, said: "What we do, as a Space Force, does not carry aggressive nature ".

By Brogan said the jamming systems are designed to interfere with communication satellites, not data transfer or imaging systems.

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A system that interferes with US Space Forces space communication.

Since its inception in December 2019 as the sixth branch of the U.S. military, the Space Force has been known to protect the nation's assets in space against threats from Russia and China.

U.S. defense officials have long spoken out against turning space into a battlefield, limiting weapons that could destroy targets, creating more debris that makes space more dangerous. The representative of the unit also stated that China and Russia "weaponized the universe", posing a risk that the US has the right to self-defense. He cited the recent launch of a Russian anti-satellite missile test launch as evidence.

And the new jamming system, which could be used early in a space conflict, won't create space waste because it emits energy designed to cause only temporary interruptions, according to Brogan.

However, advocates of space conservation as an unarmed area say the new US jamming system itself creates an escalation risk, even if it is not designed to destroy satellite. And in essence, China and Russia are second to the United States in the number of satellites orbiting the Earth.