October 11, 2024

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Russia says it has improved its defense capabilities to track objects in space

Russia says it has improved its defense capabilities to track objects in space

Russia said on Wednesday it had improved its defense capabilities for tracking objects in space, allowing it to detect foreign spaceships and target them faster.

His ministry said that Colonel-General Alexander Golovko, commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces, briefed Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during his visit to a new facility in Russia’s Western Military District.

Russia likes to boast that it is developing military technology unmatched by other nations, despite the deflections of its costly war in Ukraine, where it struggles to make headway against an overzealous defensive army equipped with cutting-edge NATO weaponry.

Shoigu has been informed that the new site has “unique capabilities for automatic search, detection and monitoring of small space objects in near space,” the ministry said.

He added that it can detect objects as small as 10 cm. By 2027, it will be able to detect spacecraft after launch four times faster than before, and target them twice as fast.

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