[C4I-Pro] Russian Spy Satellite System On Verge of Collapse
Jon Westergaard (westerga@MITRE.ORG)
Fri, 19 Jan 96 10:47:31 EST
Jon Westergaard <westerga@mitre.org>
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No. 14, Part I, 19 January 1996
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SPY SATELLITE SYSTEM ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE. Russia's military satellites
are wearing out and its early warning system could collapse by the end
of the century, according to a report in the Defense Ministry newspaper
Krasnaya zvezda on 17 January cited by Reuters. Under Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev, up to four spy satellites were launched each year to
monitor U.S. nuclear missile silos and airbases. But following the
break-up of the USSR, a lack of money and the loss of production
facilities in Ukraine and Armenia meant that the launch program ground
to a halt. The paper reported that some of the satellites have been in
operation for three times as long as their design lifespan and warned
that if new equipment is not forthcoming, Russia "will have to get used
to the idea of losing strategic equality with the United States." --
Penny Morvant
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