Posted on 03/20/2007 2:04:05 PM PDT by kronos77
Russian Space Forces and Foreign Ministry are currently discussing the questions of placing anti-missile radar stations in Russian diplomatic missions in foreign countries, the Space Forces commander has said.
Colonel-General Vladimir Popovkin said in an interview with the Russian magazine Novosti Kosmonavtiki (Space Industry News) that the move will give Russia the opportunity to register the first stages of missile launches “that we cannot see from Russia’s territory” and adjust the flight tasks for the anti-missile weapons if an extraordinary situation occurs.
The general went on to say that the new generation quant optical stations require virtually no maintenance and can be fitted in “half of a room”. A station which will remotely control these stations all over the world will be built in Krasnokamensk in Russia and every six months specialists will run a routine check of the stations.
Popovkin also said that Russia is planning to build two new radar stations in the South — near the city of Armavir. He said that after these stations start working, Russian military will no longer depend on the Mukachevo and Sevastopol radar stations in Ukraine.
Russian radars id washington DC? (Im not talking about Democrates)
It will be interesting to see the reaction to this.
Obsolete tech, but if they want to, they will have to meet FCC regs.
Actually if it is on land of the Embassy, techincaly it is territory of Russia, ang they have to obey only Russian regulations.
If they mean to set up real detection systems (not simple "annoy the host country" units), then I have no problem with it.
If you want on or off, go to the link for instructions. Otherwise, it won't be guaranteed that you will be put on or taken off (it still won't be 100% guaranteed, anyway, but will be much more highly probable).
"Missile Shield Station"? That's a pretty funny term for "Missile Homing Beacon".
That might be, but anything emitted from the property immediately trespasses on private or public property when it crosses the property line. That includes lights, boomboxes, and megawatt antimissile radar.
It may not be radar; journalists are pretty tech-impaired. Could be infrared, say in the 3-5 micron band, just looking for hot plumes. The atmosphere has enough transparency in certain parts of that band to allow viewing ~100 km or farther, depending on altitude and humidity. It's totally passive, just a fancy telescope and camera, plus computers and support equipment, no beams or emissions from the instrument.
Well, just a regular large searchlight with a clothing iron instead of a lamp, and shine on their blasted scope drom a nearby building.
should be interesting.
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