India, March 19 -- A top US general warned on Tuesday about China developing 'dogfighting' skills in space, with the country's satellites having conducted coordinated manoeuvres with 'synchrony' and 'control'.

Speaking at the annual McAleese defence programmes conference, vice chief of space operations, General Michael Guetlein, said the US Space Force has observed five different objects' in doing manoeuvres that he described as 'dogfighting', a term generally used for air-to-air combat between fighter jets.

"The service is starting to see our near-peers focusing on practicing dogfighting in space with satellite-on-satellite operations. With our commercial assets, we have observed five different objects in space manoeuvring in and out a...