Russia persistently targeting British satellites, UK Space Command chief says | Military
According to the President of the British Space Command, Russia is trying to regularly compress the UK military satellites.
Talking with BBCMaj Gen Paul Tedman said that Russian forces actively disrupt the UK -based military activities as “weekly ı and followed the country’s field assets closely.
Uz We see that our satellites are permanently stuck by the Russians, ”he said.
The UK runs about six private military satellites for communication and surveillance, which Tedman says it has been equipped with shaking technology.
“There are loads that can see our satellites and try to collect information from them.”
The threat of space -based intervention is not limited to England. In September, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced that Russia followed two intelsat satellites used by the German army.
“They can squeeze, blind, manipulate, or disrupt kinetically, in a space conference in a space conference in a space conference in Berlin.
In response to increasing international tensions, Britain and the United States last month, the first coordinated satellite maneuvers, which defense officials greeted as a major step forward in cooperation, in space.
Between 4 and September 12, a US satellite was re -positioned in orbit to examine a United Kingdom satellite and confirm that it was smoothly working. The test was part of the Olympic Defender operation, a common military framework aimed at increasing satellite defense and flexibility.
Tedman, “the US Space Command was executed skillfully executed, I could not be more satisfied with the rapid progress we made with our allies, I could not be proud,” he said.
Climbing in space emerges as long as the tension with Russia continues to increase.
British Foreign Minister Yette Cooper, last week, US President Donald Trump’ın NATO allies to call to enter Russian planes to call to call the UK’s “ready to take action,” warned.
In his speech to the UN in September, Cooper condemned Moscow’s “provocative and reckless” violations of the NATO airspace, including events on Estonia, Poland and Romania in recent weeks.
