This is John Bachelor, speaking with Brandon Wicert, my colleague, he's the author of Winning Space.

The issue is the Chinese copy of an Air Force orbital craft called X-37B. What is it for? The Air Force uses it for

for experimental flights. It stays up a loft in low- Earth orbit. It can for years and then come down as an

airplane. The Chinese version seems to be seating something into Earth orbit and

Brandon analyzes why what use when it comes to war

fighting. Brandon Weichert, winning space, the Chinese X-37B releasing something into Earth orbit, many-something.

More of this later tonight.

Thank you.

It's a nightmare.

We need many more.

In fact, the real mission of the X 37B should be, and I've talked to the Air Force a couple of times about this

and there's been indications that they want to use it in this capacity, less of a space bomber and more as a counter

anti-access area denial A2-A-2-D system.

Basically, China in particular has developed capabilities that can keep our Navy and Air Force

over the horizon when and if they decide to, say, invade Taiwan.

The Navy and the Air Force would be kind of the tips of our

spear and stopping that and A2 aD is a suite of missiles and sensors that can

basically range all of our aircraft carriers and service warships as well as our air bases in the

region and knock them out before they can get within range and so the X-37B

theoretically could be used to knock out the Chinese space sensor components for those

A2-A-2-A-D capabilities.

And we only have two of them.

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