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US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite system in the world…

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

15 November 2021 Russia shot down a spacecraft with anti-satellite weapons “Cosmos-1408”. Immediately after this, there was an immediate reaction from the United States in the form of accusing Russia of recklessness and a threat to the ISS and manned space flights, and even a threat to peaceful space exploration. Generally, Americans stirred up hysteria in their own way, painting another apocalyptic picture.

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

Photo of satellite debris “Cosmos-1408”, provided by specialists from an American company “Numerica Corporation”, whose main activity is tracking space debris.

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

“Cosmos-1408” - electronic and radio reconnaissance satellite ("Celery-D" series) weight 2200 kg, launched into low Earth orbit 16 September 1982 of the year.

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

As of November 2021 years, the debris moves in orbit at an altitude of 440 to 520 km. Most of them will come off the shave and burn in the dense layers of the atmosphere in about a year.. Some debris may remain in orbit for up to 15 years.

Photo of satellite debris “Cosmos-1408”, provided by specialists from an American company “Numerica Corporation”, whose main activity is tracking space debris.

Of course you can understand Americans, after all, the satellite was not just shot down by an anti-satellite missile, which needs to be seriously prepared for this, or single instance system, mass production of which is impossible in the medium term.

for example, similar anti-satellite systems exist in China and India. They have high-altitude transatmospheric interception technologies in single copies and do not represent a single anti-satellite complex.

  • China in 2007 tested one system (knocked down on the third try), at 2015 already another (shot down the target, emitting satellite), and today a new anti-satellite missile is in development, which is due to be tested in the mid-2020s.
  • India in 2019 also shot down a satellite, true on the second try, showing the world, which potentially has the technology to intercept low-orbit satellites.

The only ones in the world, who is capable of shooting down satellites with serial missile defense missiles, Americans were.

AT 2008 year they have a serial anti-missile "SM-3", part of the ship's multifunctional combat information and control system "Aegis", shot down a satellite at altitude 247 km.

That is, only the American system posed a serious threat to satellite constellations. But all good things come to an end.

Russia with 2011 developing a missile defense system, capable of shooting down ballistic blocks of intercontinental missiles, various types of aerospace targets, as well as maneuvering manned and unmanned spacecraft.

The final test of this new system was the interception of a satellite, located at an altitude of more than 500 km and flying at the first escape velocity.

With this fact, Russia showed the whole world, that it has completed all tests of the A-235 “Nudol” system, thereby depriving the United States of the chance to single-handedly organize a real space war.

The US panic over the downed satellite is understandable, after all, they have lost a significant trump card in space defense and now all US spacecraft, including those manned below the orbit altitude in 2000 km, potentially vulnerable.

The A-235 “Nudol” system does not just perform missile defense functions, it was developed with an emphasis on intercepting any targets in low Earth orbit.

In fact, the A-235 “Nudol” is an analogue of the A-135 “Amur” missile defense, but in a mobile version. This greatly complicates the detection of anti-missile missiles of this complex.

However, placing the A-235 complex on combat duty – the phenomenon in itself is not the worst thing, since in principle this is only a development of the A-135 system. The integration of Russian air defense and missile defense into a single system looks much more dangerous for NATO.

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

Moscow missile defense system.

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

Antinuclear umbrella of Moscow. The screen shows satellites in the station's tracking area in purple.

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

management, and continuous monitoring is carried out from the command post of the DON-2N radar. The station is called “eighth wonder of the world” for its unsurpassed characteristics.

Moscow missile defense system.

A little earlier, in October 2021 of the year, The first brigade complex of the S-500 Prometheus medium- and long-range anti-aircraft missile system entered Russian service, which is also capable of intercepting transatmospheric targets, being at the same time an element of strategic missile defense.

A-135, A-235 and S-500 will soon represent an integrated unified air defense and missile defense system of Russia, that is, a serial system with serial anti-missile defenses, capable of intercepting spacecraft anywhere in Russia, holding at gunpoint all low-orbit satellite constellations of a potential enemy.

The S-550 missile system is also being developed, which the, According to experts, is a modification of the S-500, intended for anti-space defense.

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

23 August 2021 Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov said, that the S-500 system is mass-produced. S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile systems began to arrive in the Russian Armed Forces. The Yenisei detector radar of the S-500 complex is much more powerful than the radar of the conventional S-400 and is capable of detecting targets in near space at a distance of up to 2 thousands of kilometers. The range of anti-aircraft guided missiles is 600 km. In this photo – S-400 system.

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

Russia's multi-echelon anti-missile system will be finally deployed in 2025 year.

23 August 2021 Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov said, that the S-500 system is mass-produced. S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile systems began to arrive in the Russian Armed Forces. The Yenisei detector radar of the S-500 complex is much more powerful than the radar of the conventional S-400 and is capable of detecting targets in near space at a distance of up to 2 thousands of kilometers. The range of anti-aircraft guided missiles is 600 km. In this photo – S-400 system.

Very likely, that the S-550 will be the first mobile anti-satellite system of its kind ("PSO"), tailored specifically for the destruction of enemy space groups.

How can the US not panic?? Any country, being in the USA, would begin to fan the hysteria of the apocalypse.

An insurmountable multi-echelon anti-missile system is emerging in Russia, capable of shooting down satellites as well.

As a result, we have the nullification of the missile defense system being built in Europe by the US forces, which, as planned by the West, should in the future intercept Russian ballistic missiles in the active phase of flight during 40-50 seconds.

The S-350 system will be included in Russia's unified air defense-missile defense structure, C-500, S-550 with full or partial integration of A-135 and A-235.35.5 missile defense..matters of reach of land or sea systems, which makes the US global missile defense system built over decades useless against Russia. Little of, their anti-missiles will now be intercepted by Russian air defense systems.

The unified structure of the Russian air defense and missile defense system will include the S-350 systems, C-500, S-550, A-135 and A-235.

But that's not all.

21 April 2021 of the year, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Anatoly Sazonovich Koroteev, in his report on the topic “Use of nuclear energy in space systems” showed the system being developed, whose main tasks are to detect all types of flying vehicles, tracking them, transmission of coordinates in real time and target illumination for a unified air defense-missile defense system of Russia.

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

Based on the project “Nucleon” (Transport Energy module) a military space probe with a nuclear reactor with electrical power is being created 200 kW.

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

Exterior view of a probe with a nuclear power plant, deployed in orbit.

Based on the project “Nucleon” (Transport Energy module) a military space probe with a nuclear reactor with electrical power is being created 200 kW.

As Anatoly Sazonovich Koroteev put it: “The creation of this system is a matter of extreme importance”.

One similar probe, rotating in medium orbit around the Earth (over 2000 km), can control the entire territory of Russia thanks to a powerful power plant (at 50 times greater than everything, What does the US have at its disposal today?).

Grouping of 30 such spacecraft will be able to control all actions of a potential enemy, all launches of any type of aircraft at a time and determine their location anywhere on the planet from 100% probability of data transfer to our air defense-missile defense system.

  • I discussed this issue in more detail in the article “The Russian Space Nuclear Tug turned out to be the most powerful combat system”.

At the same time, the United States in the near future 15-20 nothing like this is expected for years, and all their military space monitoring systems have now become vulnerable.

There's just one question that torments the hotheads, and not only American ones: Russia with its economy “torn to shreds”, constant "brain drain" and with its "authoritarian ruler" somehow creates high-tech witchcraft, while Western counterparts are decades behind. Even the USSR didn’t allow this to happen... How can this even happen??!

Good question, but complicated. So we’ll look at it in the next article..

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

S-350/S-400/S-500 guarding Russian air defense

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

A-235 “Nudol” guarding the Moscow missile defense system

US panic is justified: Russia has created the most powerful anti-satellite complex in the world...

A-235 "Nudol"

S-350/S-400/S-500 guarding Russian air defense

postscript.

  • 2007 year: «Russia will respond to the advance of advanced NATO forces to our state borders» (of Munich speech of the President of the Russian Federation V. AT. fishing season).

Reaction drops: how brave Putin has become…

  • 2018 year: emergence of hypersonic weapons.

Reaction drops: hypersonic weapons should be banned!

  • 2021 year: emergence of anti-satellite weapons

Reaction drops: naked panic.

Russia is just reacting...

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