India needs to develop both offensive and defensive space capabilities: IAF chief

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India needs to develop both offensive and defensive space capabilities to safeguard our assets, Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari said on Tuesday, in the backdrop of China furiously building and deploying anti-satellite weapons from direct ascent missiles and co-orbital killers

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to directed-energy laser weapons and electronic jammers.

India did successfully test an anti-satellite (A-Sat) interceptor missile to destroy the 740-kg Microsat-R satellite, at an altitude of 283-km in the low earth orbit (LEO), under Mission Shakti in March 2019.