Russia and China are investing heavily in new weapons capable of wiping out Western satellites – risking key communications, financial transactions and military defence systems, Nato has warned.

Pointing to an increased focus on the West’s vulnerability in space , the interim head of Nato’s innovative defence body, James Appathurai, warned that Russia and China were “investing quite a lot” in anti-satellite capabilities.

“These have multiple vectors from lasers from space to cyber attacks, to kinetic attacks in space,” he said. New Feature

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“So we need robust architectures against jamming, against cyber-attacks, but against also kinetic attacks. And all of these are very real.”

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