{"id":61965,"date":"2019-07-30T01:46:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/french-military-to-develop-anti-satellite-laser-weapons\/"},"modified":"2019-07-30T01:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:46:41","slug":"french-military-to-develop-anti-satellite-laser-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/french-military-to-develop-anti-satellite-laser-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"French Military to Develop Anti-Satellite Laser Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>France is accelerating plans to militarize its satellite technology, <strong>French Minister of Armed Forces<\/strong> Florence Parly said during a July 25 presentation of the European nation\u2019s new space strategy.&nbsp;Parly\u2019s plans include the development of anti-satellite laser weapons that would, \u201conly be used in self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our satellites are threatened, we intend to blind those of our adversaries,\u201d said Parly. \u201cWe reserve the right and the means to be able to respond: that could imply the use of powerful lasers deployed from our satellites or from patrolling nano-satellites \u2026 We will develop powerful lasers. It\u2019s an area in which France has fallen behind. But we will catch up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These comments follow a July 13 announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron that confirmed his intention of creating a French \u201cSpace Force\u201d command.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, Russia and China have developed weapons capable of destroying enemy satellites. In March, India&nbsp;joined the list of space-faring nations capable of warfare when it destroyed a satellite with a missile. The Indian government was criticized by the commercial satellite industry for creating new and dangerous space debris as a result of the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France is accelerating plans to militarize its satellite technology, French Minister of Armed Forces Florence Parly said during a July 25 presentation of the European nation\u2019s new space strategy.&nbsp;Parly\u2019s plans include the development of anti-satellite laser weapons that would, \u201conly be used in self-defense.\u201d \u201cIf our satellites are threatened, we intend to blind those of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}