Russia developing anti-satellite weapons
Published: 05 March, 2009, 16:22
Edited: 27 January, 2010, 12:21
TAGS: Arms, Space, Russia, SciTech
The Russian military are developing anti-satellite weapons, according to deputy defence minister, Vladimir Popovkin.
The general said it was necessary, as other nations, namely the US and China, were doing the same.
“We can’t sit and watch others do it. I can only say similar works are done in Russia too,” he told the Interfax news agency.
He added Russia needed the capability to shoot down satellites in case “somebody put weapons into space.”
Previously Russia had been calling for weapons in space to be banned, as well as weapons that could be used against spacecraft and satellites.
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with this there should be an physical aspect to receive the information manually as well as Internet communication this would be to insecure strategic logistics stat & info on a disc that can be catapulted and retrieved by satellite to and from space capital.
America seems to be a very hipocritical and strange beast... on the one hand demanding democracy for Iraq, yet happy to work with military dictatorships in Pakistan and very undemocratic countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwaite. The secret is that America does not have principles and morals... it has interests. Kosovo is a special unique case. Georgia is another unique case where the opposite view to that taken in Kosovo applies simply because of US interests. Russia is not allow a sphere of influence. It cannot interfere in the Ukraine or Georgia. It seems however with the various coloured revolutions that the US sphere of influence is global. Under such conditions I would think Russian military spending should be maintained. Anti satellite weapons could also be used as anti space debris weapons too. The US relies on its satellites so having a technology to deal with them makes sense for Russian interests. This would be against US interests, but when was the last time the US did something that wasn't in their own interests? Russia needs to play the same game with the same rules.
good for russia,with anti-sat capability,they should never have to lick the boot-heels of the capitalist-imperialist aggressors! hail stalin!