After the deployment of personnel demonstration format pilot combat operation "Relight" the latest Russian laser systems with even greater activity was the discussion topic on the specific purpose of these installations. In the plots of federal channels citing military experts passed a statement, that "overexposure" may well be used not only as an effective means of defense, but also as anti-satellite weapons.
Statement that, that the latest Russian combat lasers are able to "reach out" to the satellites, already agitated Western military experts, which began to discuss the issue of security for its part,. More acute this discussion has given the United States a statement of the actual ultimatum to Russia on "the need to abandon the violations of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range Missile" within 60 days. otherwise, as stated in Washington, US will come out of the INF Treaty,.
Speaking of "Relight", West remembered, that Russia has more Soviet developments in the form of "flying laser system". We are talking about a complex A-60 based on the Il-76MD. The complex made his first flight in the already distant 1981 year. At the same time on board was megawatt laser system, which eventually planned output and space.
Those developments have transformed the appearance of the laser in complex 1LK222, which was originally conceived as an element of counter space component of the US missile defense. AT 2009 year as a result of the experiment the laser beam with the A-60 leads to the satellite from orbit 1,5 thousand. km. As a result, the reflected signal was received. After that, the work on improving the system were continued.
Often these works are described as a draft (More Soviet) "Falcon Echelon". Notably, that in the English version of Wikipedia, this project is dedicated to a separate article Sokol Eshelon.
Summing up the deployment of demonstration "Peresvet" and work for the development of airborne laser systems, in the United States celebrate, that "the Russian could well create the current anti-satellite weapons". For obvious reasons,, such statements cause panic in the US Congress, where he had previously stated, that "the Russian could make a star wars, disabling American satellites ". About, as US (and not only for the United States) important component of the satellite, well known, and therefore removal of the satellite system can be a real disaster for the state, claims to hegemony.
