The US is confident that its shooting down of a disabled spy satellite with a missile managed to destroy its potentially toxic fuel tank.
Marine Gen James Cartwright said there was a 80-90% chance that the satellite's tank had been destroyed.
A fire ball, vapour cloud and spectral analysis indicating the presence of hydrazine all indicated that the tank had been hit, he told reporters.
The operation has been criticised by China and Russia.
"We're very confident that we hit the satellite," Gen Cartwright said at a Pentagon briefing hours after the missile was fired.
"We also have a high degree of confidence that we got the tank."
This is very significant to this region, not only just china but also russia. China and russia both have been very out spoken on this issue due to the fact that they are affraid that the US will start shooting down China's sattlites, China takes this test as a warning from the US and they say they're not backing down
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