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Rxke

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Re: Look at this! - Russia had MD tech back in the mid-80's

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/vi … 0510]Wowza...

When I saw the pics, I immediately had to think about the MD CGI... But this stuff was real...

(It's military, and creepy, I know, but....

EDIT: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? … &tid=1]The article is running on Slashdot, so the site is probably being iinundated with traffic for the moment...

Astronautix has some http://www.astronautix.com/craft/polyus.htm]detailed info and pictures although not so spectacularly about the Polyus battlestation...

Cobra Commander

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Re: Look at this! - Russia had MD tech back in the mid-80's

Interesting stuff. Not really surprising, but interesting. Soviets building secret space weapons? Surely not! 

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Rxke

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Re: Look at this! - Russia had MD tech back in the mid-80's

It was apparently in reply to SDI...
But the Russkies came up with a mighty impressive answer to a paper tiger!

Rxke

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Re: Look at this! - Russia had MD tech back in the mid-80's

Well... look like the comparison isn't too far fetched...

Energias]http://www.energia.ru/english/energia/mars/concept.html]Energia's Mars mission

Just think, where they could've been now, if the USSR hadn't crumbled...

(yeah, maybe 'they' and 'we' would've been a radioactive plume of dust, but that's another story..

Trebuchet

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Re: Look at this! - Russia had MD tech back in the mid-80's

The Soviets deployed space weapons not-so-secretly in response to paranoid fantasies of US space weapons real and imagined for a long, long time, so this is no surprise. They armed a few of their Salyut space stations, after all, in case the US armed an Apollo with machine guns and flew up to shoot it down. Not kidding.

Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Look at this! - Russia had MD tech back in the mid-80's

an old debate, it could go in the space faring nations thread

weaponization of space continues but Russian science falls behind what it once did during the USSR

Space superpower Russia falls down to earth
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Dataw … n-to-earth
Orders for satellite launches plummet 90% as India and China fill the void

Japanese government announced a plan to develop a public-private capability to launch 30 rockets per year by the mid-2030s. This, however, represents a tall order: The country carried out only two launches last year.

So how does Japan make good on its space ambitions?

Said Shinichi Nakasuka, a professor of astronautics at the University of Tokyo, "The government must ensure the smooth trajectories of private projects by providing them with ideas and practical support on the development of advanced smaller rockets."