Name: Douglas Schiess: they are using their intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance efforts to target our forces much farther than they ever have in the past. They've built a kill chain to be able to see our carrier strike groups, our bombers at much farther, pace, speed, and distances, and they've also developed missiles and weapon systems to go after that.
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Description: they are using their intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance efforts to target our forces much farther than they ever have in the past. They've built a kill chain to be able to see our carrier strike groups, our bombers at much farther, pace, speed, and distances, and they've also developed missiles and weapon systems to go after that.

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Douglas Schiess

31:12 - 32:06

"they are using their intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance efforts to target our forces much farther than they ever have in the past. They've built a kill chain to be able to see our carrier strike groups, our bombers at much farther, pace, speed, and distances, and they've also developed missiles and weapon systems to go after that."

“they are using their intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance efforts to target our forces much farther than they ever have in the past. They've built a kill chain to be able to see our carrier strike groups, our bombers at much farther, pace, speed, and distances, and they've also developed missiles and weapon systems to go after that.”

Speaker: Douglas Schiess
Timestamp: 31:12 – 32:06
Source: Senate Armed Services (Sullivan): Hearings to examine the nomination of Lieutenant General Douglas A. Schiess, USSF, to be general and Chief of Space Operations.
Community: Alaska News
Captured at: July 16, 2026

From the transcript

And I'd love to have a conversation with you in a more classified session to talk about that. But I would say their electromagnetic jamming, The capabilities that they continue to develop are very worrisome, and specifically in the Pacific, they are, as has been said, they are using their intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance efforts to target our forces much farther than they ever have in the past. They've built a kill chain to be able to see our carrier strike groups, our bombers at much farther, pace, speed, and distances, and they've also developed missiles and weapon systems to go after that. So the Space Force needs to be able to bring capability to deny, degrade that kill web to be able to protect the joint force. With regard to the threat against the satellites, what would that mean to Americans and to American service people?

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