The United States Space Force (USSF) has revealed that China has been conducting a series of synchronized satellite maneuvers in low Earth orbit, prompting concerns over potential space warfare capabilities. 

General Michael A. Guetlein, the Deputy Chief of US Space Operations at the USSF, has reported that five experimental satellites and space objects carried out “coordinated maneuvers” in low Earth orbit last year, signaling a potential shift in space warfare tactics. 

“With our commercial assets, we have observed five different objects in space maneuvering in and out and around each other in synchronicity and in control,” General Guetlein stated during the McAleese Defense Programs Conference in Washington. “That’s what we call dogfighting in space. They are practicing tactics, techniques, and procedures to do on-orbit space operations from one satellite to another.” 

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