Russia has long begun to develop anti-satellite weapons. He announced this on the air of the program “Soloviev LIVE”, the broadcast was carried out on the YouTube channel Roscosmos Media.
“Anti-satellite weapons have been developed in Russia for a long time, there is no secret in this. It's just that the time has come when the Ministry of Defense conducted tests, ”Rogozin said.
He stressed that in modern conditions, anti-satellite weapons are an obvious thing that Russia must possess in order to be able to defend itself.
Earlier, the general director of Roscosmos also spoke about the concern of the state corporation due to the fact that the United States and NATO are launching potential weapons carriers into space. “There is a topic that cannot but worry us – this is the topic of the militarization of outer space. We see how in the last decades the United States, first of all, and its NATO allies have been putting into space not weapons, but potential carriers of these weapons, ”he said.
On November 16, the United States accused Russia of creating a threat to the security of space research due to the test of an anti-satellite missile. In response to this, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a video that proves that the fragments formed after testing anti-satellite weapons in space do not pose a threat to the ISS.
