China successfully tests ‘phantom space strike’ weapon which can overwhelm a missile defence system
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China has successfully tested a ‘phantom space strike’ – a new tactic to overwhelm and sabotage missile defences by emitting fake target signals from space.
Military engineers announced earlier this month they had completed a computer simulation and achieved positive results.
The tactic is designed to overwhelm the enemy on the basis that there is only so much a missile defence system would be able to cope with.
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This can lead to exhaustion of the enemy’s weapon supplies, making it easier to destroy it.
In the simulation, a ballistic missile was launched against an enemy which had a missile defence system.
After surpassing the atmosphere, the missile released three spacecrafts containing radio interference equipment which picked up enemy radar network signals and sent back dummy signals, successfully triggering enemy forces to launch an interceptor.
‘Generating phantom tracks in space is extremely difficult,’ the team wrote, according to South China Morning Post.
‘We solved one of the major challenges … with a clever design.’
