Emergence of New Integrated Space and Air Force

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According to Japanese newspaper The Sankei Shimbun, China will soon complete the establishment of its integrated space and air force. The force will have its own management independent from Chinese army, navy and air force.
Both Chinese air force and the Second Artillery Corps. will participate in the force so that the force will be a combination of various arms of the services. There will be ground force, force with space and aerospace equipment, rocket troops, etc. in it. Its major tasks will be space defense, support for air, ground and marine combat operations and development in space and universe.
In light of the reports of The Sankei Shimbun, Canada’s Kanwa Defence Review and other media, Japan and the US seek to jointly establish a space surveillance and control system to monitor China’s space activities closely. The two countries’ speculate that China’s Second Artillery Corps is planning to establish a new arm of the services that contains troops of networking technology and electronic warfare. Those troops will be the basis for the combat capabilities of the integrated space and air force that the PLA is establishing.
Sankei Shimbun’s report points out that the US and Japan will jointly intensify their space surveillance with a clear division of labor. The US will use optical telescopes and ground-based radars to monitor Chinese satellites; while Japan will use its EPS-5 ground-based ballistic missile defense radar to identify Chinese satellites and other vehicles in their orbits in space so as to undertake a part of the tasks.
According to Kanwa’s speculation, the Second Artillery Corps will take the lead in carrying out the integrated space and air battle plan that the US and Japan are worried about. The Corps’ automatic command system has long been a networked one. Recently, its command management system has been connected by network with Chinese navy and air force to provide the foundation for the implementation of integrated space and air battle.
The report says that the Corps’ networked troops have the system for collecting, transmitting, processing and displaying intelligence and providing assistance for decision making and functions of surveillance and control. Its system that collects information can call for its use reconnaissance satellites, reconnaissance aircrafts of the navy and air force and other equipment. Its information transmission and processing system is equipped with advanced computers while its system that assists decision making and analysis consists of computer center, database and combat simulation system. The sophisticated equipment can help the Corps obtain at anytime information support from navy and air force and closely monitor the activities of other countries’ relevant equipment in space and on earth.
Qianzhan.com says that it is precisely US militarization of space that has forced China to deploy corresponding defense force in order to ensure prevention of China’s space assets from being attacked.
In addition, all computers at the terminals of the Corps’ automatic command system have been replaced by military notebook computer for field operations. That enables commanders of the Corps’ troops to obtain at anytime information on space and air battlefield through the terminals for making the decision to deal with the enemy.
According to Kanwa’s speculation, the establishment of electronic warfare troops also reflects the Corps’ intention to enhance its integrated space and air capabilities. Through its independent electronic reconnaissance and the integrated reconnaissance of the electronic warfare troops of the air force and navy, the reconnaissance capabilities of the Corps’ long- and mediau-range missile troops have been greatly enhanced. .
Such information system facilitates making clear the movements of the space and air combat systems of the US and other countries, in particular those of their satellite and missile interception system in outer space. Once it is found that China’s assets in space are in danger of being attacked, the Corps can attack with missiles the radars and wireless command facilities of the enemy’s space and air attack system.
Source: qianzhan.com “Surprising emergence of the new integrated space and air force shocks the world” (summary by Chan Kai Yee)