
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.”
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?
Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that China is rapidly expanding weapons designed to destroy U.S. satellites and track carrier strike groups, and defended a 124% budget increase as equipment-driven, not a personnel expansion.
