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This year’s Republic Day Parade on January 26 will showcase a weapon system capable of destroying an enemy satellite.

India conducted an anti-satellite (ASAT) test on March 27 last year. It provides the ability to render an enemy country “deaf and blind” by targeting communication, military and surveillance satellites.

China has conducted three such tests since 2007, the latest being in February 2018. Beijing designated space as a new domain of warfare in its defense white paper released in 2015.