What Shoigu declassified: experts explained how Russia destroyed the satellite
It is highly likely that on November 15, Russia tested an anti-missile and anti-satellite system, known by the name of the Nudol development work.
Military expert Dmitry Kornev stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It can be said with high probability that on November 15, it was the anti-missile and anti-satellite system that had been under development for a decade, known by the name of the development work “Nudol”, that was tested. This is evidenced by the published launch point, satellite interception parameters and a number of other indicators. In the West, based on the results of their observations, they gave a lot of information about how the tests were carried out - here you can trust them. It is unlikely that on Monday they tested another system from Plesetsk that suddenly appeared out of nowhere,” Kornev told Izvestia.
At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense did not provide details about the system with which the faulty Soviet satellite Tselina-D was destroyed on November 15. According to the US Space Command, the surface-to-space anti-missile missile was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
It is noteworthy that on November 9, at a conference call in Moscow, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russia was developing a new S-550 anti-aircraft system.
“The fact that the designation of the new S-550 anti-aircraft missile system was declassified personally by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu less than a week before the anti-satellite tests is hardly an accident,” says military expert Dmitry Boltenkov. — Most likely, this is the official designation that the system being developed within the framework of the Nudol R&D will receive. It will be part of the S-500 family, just as there are now several variants of the anti-aircraft S-300 and S-400.”
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