The United States military is soon to deploy new weapons designed to counter Chinese and Russian intelligence and surveillance, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The weapons, called Meadowlands and the Remote Modular Terminal, are part of a larger “Counter Communications System.” The system is to be deployed worldwide and operated remotely in an effort to combat Chinese space threats.
Meadowlands, developed by L3Harris Technologies Inc., is expected to go live this fiscal year. Currently, the system is undergoing training, live-fire tests, and rehearsals. The Remote Modular Terminal, developed by Northstrat Inc. and CACI International Inc., is being placed in select locations overseas.
A space threat fact sheet released by Space Force says that China and Russia are “developing new space systems to enhance military effectiveness and end any reliance on U.S. space services.” The two countries are also “fielding sophisticated counterspace capabilities with the intent to disrupt and degrade the U.S. space-enabled capabilities.”
As of July 2025, China has conducted 41 successful space launches. Of these, 19 were intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)-capable satellites. Similarly, the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) exercises “regularly incorporate jammers against space-based communications, radars, and navigation systems like GPS.”
Meanwhile, Russia considers space as a “warfighting domain and believes space supremacy will be a decisive factor in future conflicts.” Its space troops were “integrated into the Aerospace Forces in 2015, in part to better integrate space-based capabilities into larger operations,” the fact sheet explains.
Earlier this year, Space Force stated that China practiced “dogfighting” using satellites. Speaking at the McAleese Defense Programs Conference in Washington, D.C., Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein said China has conducted maneuvers with “synchrony” and “control,” Defense One reported. “With our commercial assets, we have observed five different objects in space maneuvering in and out and around each other in synchrony and in control. 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.”
