With a recently released doctrine document on achieving space superiority serving as a backdrop, the U.S. Air Force acknowledged that one system designed to counter enemy satellite use has been canceled while another is ready for action. The canceled system, dubbed Counter Surveillance Reconnaissance System (CSRS) and known informally as Scissors, was designed to temporarily disrupt imaging satellites being used by U.S. adversaries in battle. Officially declared operational, meanwhile, was the Counter Communications System (CounterCom), a radio frequency-based system designed to temporarily jam communications satellites, the Air Force said.
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