India to counter outer space attacks

INDIA will set up an aerospace defence command to shield itself against possible attacks from outer space, officials said.

The announcement came three days after Russia backed India’s response to a Chinese satellite-destroying weapons test that demanded a “weapons free outer space”.

Indian airforce chief Shashi Tyagi said the military was in the process of establishing an aerospace defence command “to exploit outer space,” the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported yesterday.