This is what has US officials and military leaders in the West all shook up. While quietly protesting US and NATO provocations at Davos and the foreign for world leaders, Russia delivers a message that the entire Western political and military establishment got, even as the Western press did not even mention it!
Russia’s MiG-31 fighter jet shoots down space satellites. Video
Russia’s MiG-31 fighter jet can shoot down even space satellites, pilots say. The aircraft can carry up to four long-range R-33 missiles and four short-range R-77 missiles.
According to commander of Khotilovo aviation garrison Anatoly Ulyanov, missiles of MiG-31 are capable of striking air targets in near space, including satellites, Zvezda TV channel says.
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The film crew of the channel will hold a unique experiment: cameras will be mounted on board a MiG-31 that will fly at a maximum altitude in the stratosphere near to the boundary of space.
Western military officials earlier expressed their concerns about the possible resumption of a program to shoot down space satellites. It goes about the program of anti-satellite weapons that was developed during the 1960s and launched in 1978. After the US announced its Star Wars program, the USSR started developing orbital interceptor satellites that could “approach a space object and destroy it by means of self-destruction.
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