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Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Russia is developing a new Laseric system in the mountain ranges of the Great Caucasus, a system that would hinder the circulation of foreign satellites over Russian territory, said a publication announced by The Space Review, writes The Jerusalem Post, follows Periscope. Construction of the Kalina project, which began in 2011, is on [...]
Construction of the Kalina project, which began in 2011, is under way at the Chrona space surveillance complex located in the top of Mount Chapal, reported a report analyzing the latest satellite images from Google Earth and Russian industrial contractors' documents.
“The space security complex” as described in a 2017 document is a specific “quantum-optic system” that is expected to be used for “electro-optic war”, according to the Precize (NPK SPP) Instrument Systems, an industrial and Russian corporation, which was awarded the project contract by the Russian Defence Ministry.
The project has been postponed several times and progress has been very slow, the report says, citing a newspaper published by contractors in 2016. A possible setback came in the form of the liquidation of NPT Femto, the company engaged in developing an appropriate optical system for the project in question.
Kalina has also been postponed due to economic sanctions on Russia since 2014, when the Crimea invasion took place, and recently due to the wave of sanctions imposed by the West due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. /Periscopi/
