Russia to place space control systems to the Crimea and the Altai
Russia plans to deploy complexes of the new space monitoring system (SKKP) in the Altai, the Far East, Buryatia and the Crimea, as reported on the radio station Life Zvuk by the deputy commander of Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS), Colonel Andrey Ivashin.
“In the coming years a network of new complexes of the space monitoring system will be deployed on the territory of the Russian Federation. It will be a network of specialized radio engineering control systems and optoelectronic systems of a new generation. In addition to Altai Krai, it is planned to deploy similar systems in other regions of Russia; the Far East, the Republic of Buryatia and the Crimea,” Ivashin said, according to a report from TASS.
The main advantage of these complexes is that they are built on a foundation of new elements, Ivashin said.
“This allows their combat capabilities to be greatly increased in comparison with the complexes of the previous generations. With the commissioning of new SKKP facilities, VKS of Russia will be able to constantly monitor the near-Earth space in all directions and at a maximum altitude range,” the colonel said.
At the beginning of October, the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces said that the US missile defense system is a threat to the free use of space by other states.
According to the statement made by the first deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of Russia, Viktor Poznihir, speaking at Xiangshan Forum, the United States plans to expand its capacity to destroy low-orbit satellites of other countries with the help of anti-missile systems.
Poznihir recalled that in 2008 Americans destroyed their own malfunctioning satellite, which was at an altitude of about 250 km, with a Standard-3 1A missile launched from the USS missile cruiser Lake Erie. Russia and China then voiced their concern that the United States was using the malfunctioning satellite to check national missile defense. However, Washington rejected these suggestions.
According to Poznihir, the capabilities of Standard-3 2A anti-missiles, which have an increased impact area, and GBI anti-missiles, which are much higher, will allow them to destroy Russian and Chinese spacecraft.