Vladimir Bekish: Insomnia

Interesting events have been taking place recently on the fronts of weapons, re -equipment, strategic threats and chickens of strategic statements. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the "government hour" in the Federation Council said that the military department was monitoring the American threat from space. “I can assure you: we do not sleep,” he said, answering the question of how Russian aerospace forces can counteract the American threat from the earth's orbit. He promised to tell the rest to the senators "closed."

They don't sleep. Perhaps they look vigilantly at night. Or maybe they would fall asleep, but they have insomnia. I'm not a senator. And not the Minister of Defense. And not even the bourgeois spy, hid under a stool in the meeting room of the Federation Council. However, I dare to assure you - I know everything that Minister Shoigu said. And I will even tell you about it.

Remember an unpleasant surprise with an American missile blow to Syria ? 59 "Tomagavkov". One gulp. In the eyes and under the nose of the Russian VKS group in Syria. Suddenly and impunity. Despite the presence of air defense systems there, both Syrian and Russian. And despite the S-300 missile systems for Syrians and the S-400 in the Russian group. And also despite the presence of drones, satellites, naval groups. True, Russian generals, deputies and TV presenters, squinting, reported that only 29 Tomagavs flew to goals. And the rest, they say, could not withstand the relics of Russian weapons ... and disappeared.

Then there was a military parade in honor of Victory Day on May 9. Rather, parades. But in St. Petersburg, the naval parade did not take place. At the very last moment, the grouping of ships and submarines starred from the raid on the Neva and went to the Baltic. Why? Because off the coast of Russia in the Baltic Sea, an American frigate was discovered. With winged missiles "tomahawk" on board. It would seem, well, frigate and frigate. Well, Tomagavka. But no: the ceremonial Russian group, on a hurry, moved to counteract the frigate. Do you know why? The answer is simple. The whole leadership of the country on May 9 in the morning is in one place, on Red Square at the mausoleum. So, one Tomagavka, who was reaching the target, is enough for the head of Russia to become some minister or deputy who overslept and did not come to Red Square, and therefore accidentally survived. Of course, from the point of view of political caution, it is better to overshadow than to not be missed. And then let our submarines guard this damned frigate until the elite of the country is corroded from Red Square.

All this means that in the country's military-political leadership they seriously believe in the possibility of a sudden missile-nuclear blow by the United States in Russia. They believe that in the morning, after breakfast or before breakfast, Donald Trump opens a nuclear suitcase - that's all. The funny thing is that, with all the paranoidality of such an assumption, it is apparently at least partially real, judging by how Trump jerked around Syria or by the fact that a flock of American aircraft carriers suddenly gathered off the coast of North Korea. And secondly, such increased vigilance is manifested because the S-400 accumulates in Russia (around Moscow in particular, and even a complex about around Moscow, deployed back in the 1970s), apparently, they do not inspire Shoigu and Putin's trust. And this leads to an absolutely logical conclusion - to arm, arm and arm themselves. Prepare and be prepared.

And the process went. I went in all directions if we listen to the words of President Putin and Minister Shoigu. In particular, more than 160 new systems and weapons are tested in Syria. And the Kuznetsov cruiser transporting aircraft will be repaired. And by 2022, the first helicopter carrier will appear in Russia - his own, not a couple of all kinds of "Mistrals". Well, of course, finally the elderly Bulava rocket will finally come into operation. And missile troops will receive many intercontinental missiles "Yars".

Here it would be possible to say with a calm conscience: "And we will be happiness." But only space does not give rest. Not sleeping. Because if the United States begins to wrap in space, then ... horror what can happen! Say, irrigation-in-depressing machines in Moscow will not be able to work normally, they are all with the glonas-sensors. And the Americans can easily disable this GLONASS - only bring down a couple of satellites. And how to answer Russia to the American threat in space? What to come up with?

Actually, everything was invented for a long time, when the arms race in space began a second time, in the mid-80s of the last century. President Reagan announced the concept of Star Wars, as a strategic defense initiative was then nicknamed. When the Americans had a reusable spacecraft "shuttle", which became a nightmare for the Soviet military: he was able to make a sudden dive into the atmosphere from the orbit and, in principle, lose the warheads, leaving no time to detect, hide and answer.

In the field of armed struggle in space, there was a lot of interesting things. For example, in the mid-1960s, the United States conducted tests in space of the satellite destruction system-by withdrawing a satellite into orbit, from which two million steel needles were thrown out, forming a huge cloud so that not a single satellite slipped. And the USSR brought a heavy machine gun to one of the satellites into orbit, and this machine gun shot. And the so-called satellites-inspectors were created, which were taken to the orbit of the interception of the satellite-target, and then came closer to him in order to determine his purpose and characteristics. Accordingly, the interceptor satellites were also developed: they came closer to the enemy companion and, undermining, destroyed him.

There is no longer the USSR who decided to compete in the space of space weapons with America, which was one of the reasons for the economic tear of pseudo -constraint and its collapse

In the USA and in the USSR, laser weapons were developed. Actually, the cosmic -based missile defense system - the same "star wars" by Ronald Reagan - was an orbital grouping of special satellites equipped with X -ray lasers with nuclear pumping. During the explosion of a nuclear charge, a laser impulse is generated in such a satellite, which destroys the enemy ballistic missiles on the active section of the trajectory. The USSR for a long time brought into orbit a manned orbital station "Salyut-5", it is also the "Almaz". Only the initiates knew that this station and its crews solved exclusively military tasks. There were no civilian cosmonauts in her crews. In the USSR, they created the most powerful in the world of the Energy launch vehicle. In the first of her two launches, she carried a Cruc like a combat laser installation to destroy objects in space and in the atmosphere of the Earth.

But those times passed, there is no longer the USSR who decided to compete in the space of space weapons with America, which was one of the reasons for the economic strangt of pseudo -constraint and its collapse. But the cosmos remained. And the United States remained with their space group and the new decisive president. There was China, which in the recent past, apparently, conducted successful interception tests - while his own - a satellite in orbit. Calmly look at this to Russia, the discoverer of the cosmos, well, it is strongly impossible. Especially against the background of messages such as a successful return to the Earth of the secret American cosmoplan of the X-37V after two years of its stay in orbit. Moreover, this is the fourth successful flight of cosmoplanes of the X-37 series. And what he did there in space is unknown. It is assumed that this is a space interceptor ...

It is clear that here the Russian aerospace forces are not up to sleep. And now, at a meeting of representatives of the military-industrial complex, the president demanded to strengthen and deepen in order to resolutely proceed with the remote sensing of the Earth. And also create a superheavy launch vehicle. Despite the fact that last week from a private cosmodrome in New Zealand , another private launch vehicle has successfully started. And despite the fact that the Space-X Ilona Mask has already turned private launches-and with the rocket returned to the first step-to the routine ... and despite the fact that the piloted spacecraft of the class of the class that would be needed for a superheavy rocket, but Russia does not. However, not Russia either. Yes, and other useful loads in commercial consumers in the world are also not visible. What then is Russia able to do in military space?

Firstly, Russia has a C-500 complex, capable of knocking objects on orbit up to 270 kilometers high. Secondly, there are laser complexes that can disable spaceships on higher orbits. Provided that these laser complexes are located in space. And work on these complexes goes, in my opinion, very intensively. Thirdly, there is a banal nuclear weapon in space, which disables all the electronics and optics in everything in a row, which is within direct visibility.

That's just one detail: it has already been. In the USSR, and it ended badly for the USSR. A little expensive, and even his electronics, alas, as it was, did not appear ...

But what will Russia be able to do: on the super -heavy rocket ordered by Putin to bring into space something special, affirming the Russian spirit, scrapers and all that - say, a monument to Prince Vladimir. So that everyone can see and know. Imagine, Prince Vladimir flies over America every 90 minutes, and nothing can be done about it !!!

Vladimir Bekish - an expert in the field of strategic security

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