The U.S. Air Force released an unclassified report created by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center detailing developing trends in the space domain and the growing challenges posed by foreign space assets. The report, titled “Competing in Space,” was created at the request of Air Force senior leaders to serve as a discussion tool for the public. The 25-page unclassified document uses a combination of images, assessments, and projections to characterize the increasing threats to U.S. and allied use of space, and presents an outlook for the continued evolution of these trends. NASIC’s mission is to discover and characterize air, space, missile, and cyber threats to enable full-spectrum multi-domain operations, drive weapon system acquisition, and inform national defense policy. NASIC products helps create advantage, giving policymakers, warfighters, and the acquisition community a war-winning edge.
This image was created for the Directed Energy Weapons section of the “Competing in Space” unclassified report, depicting threats, such as this airborne laser weapon system, which can temporarily impair or permanently damage space-based systems. Counterspace directed-energy weapons are designed to produce reversible or non-reversible effects against space systems by emitting highly focused radiofrequency or laser energy.
| Date Taken: | 10.31.2019 |
| Published: | 02-19-20 07:52 AM |
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