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Specifically what they believe the russian satellites could do. tonight a u.s. military official tells cnn the russians have turned space into a, quote, war fighting domain. >> you can see the evolution when a single satellite could give birth to smaller satellites which could be potential kinetic use. >> reporter: u.s. military officials have told cnn the russians have already developed a satellite called cosmos 2499. they nicknamed it kamikaze. experts say the russians could use satellites to jam american satellites, intercept or disrupt crucial communications. >> a lot of our image surveill...

Annual budget, and 134 locations across the globe. >> now, when you see a satellite from at country move in space like that, is there any other explanation, except that they're testing out an offensive capability? >> everything that has that type of capability can be easily changed into an offensive capabilit capability. >> the satellite's official call sign is cosmos 2499, but the airmen here have a more daunting nickname. kamikaze, a spacecraft expressly designed to maneuver up close to another satellite and disable or destroy it. in other words, this satellite can go on attack. >> this is s...

Graziani was charged with delivering the bad news to one of its victims. u.s.-owned intel sat. >> as soon as we figured out it was parking next to an intel sat satellite, we picked up the phone and let them know they've got a new neighbor. >> their reaction? >> they were not happy. >> the russian government did not respond to cnn's request for comment on luch or cosmos 2499. if russia's launches of those potential attack satellites were the space equivalents of surgical strikes, china's 2007 space shot was a sledgehammer. that year, the chinese launched a massive space kill vehicle, similar to...

Hidden from sight in an old airplane hangar at vandenberg is general buck's team. airmen who consider themselves the first space warriors. first lieutenant andrew engle is one of them, assigned to the joint space operation center. one small part of america's space command. it's a command with some 38,000 employees, a nearly $9 billion annual budget, and 134 locations across the globe. >> now, when you see a satellite from another country move in space like that, is there any other explanation, except that they're testing out an offensive capability? >> everything that has that type of capabili...

Communications coming out of this utel satellite, but because it can maneuver, it also has the potential to just become a bullet. >> it could, it could. if the operations of the spacecraft so chose, they could direct it to actually hit another spacecraft. >> over the course of a year, luch has also cozied up to three u.s. satellites, handling some of the most sensitive military communications. gratsiani was charged with delivering the bad news to one of his victims. >> as soon as we figured out it was parking next to an intel sat satellite, we picked up the phone and let them know they've got ...