The report observes that China has doubled its space assets for ISR owns and operates about half of the world’s ISR systems, ‘most of which could support monitoring, tracking and targeting of the US and allied forces worldwide, especially throughout the Indo-Pacific region’.
China’s rampant expansion of military space capabilities is of paramount importance to India.
With the Chinese threat looming large, India should go all out to bolster its space assets and be well prepared to protect them from disruptions that can not only impact military operations but also hit critical services such as disaster response, healthcare, weather forecasting and digital transactions.
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