Russia must have antisipate weapons to be able to protect himself in space. This was announced by the head of the state corporation “Roscosmos” on the transfer of “Soloviev Live”, the broadcast was carried out on the Youtube channel Roscosmos Media.
He stressed that in modern conditions, antispatride weapons are an obvious thing, as future wars will begin with space.
According to Rogozin, Russia has long started the development of antispot weapon, but only now the Ministry of Defense held it.
The first tests of Russia
On November 15, he conducted tests, as a result of which the inactive Russian spacecraft “Velin-D” was affected, which was in orbit since 1982. This was reported by Lente.ru in the press service of the Ministry of Defense.
According to the departments, fragments formed after defeat, fragments do not carry the threats to satellites and space activities. “Fragments are made to the chief catalog of the domestic system of control of space space and immediately taken to support before the cessation of their existence. Tests similar to Russia conducted were already carried out in US space space, PRC and India,” – reminded of the Ministry of Defense.
It is also noted that the Ministry of Defense of Russia carries out planned activities to strengthen the defense capacity, which eliminates the possibility of a sudden cause of damage to the country’s security in the space sphere and on Earth existing and promising foreign spaces. “
World Reaction
The incident caused the turbulent reaction of other states. Thus, a spokesman for Pentagon John Kirby said that the agency was concerned about the launches conducted by Russia. He also added that Moscow did not inform about them Washington. The representative expressed the hope that world space powers would respect international rules for using outer space.
The head of the UK Ministry of Defense Ben Wallace also stated that Russia neglected the security of outer space, having experienced anticipate weapons, thereby created a threat to satellites and spacecraft.
What did they answer in the State Duma?
US accusations in the testing of Russia of anticipate weapons in space – fantasy. Thus, answered the words of the official representative of the State Department of Prizes Prides, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, Yury Shvochen.
He also pointed out the policies of double standards in the United States. According to the State Duma deputy, the Americans are actively experiencing weapons in space, while accusing Russia.