Russia may have significantly modernized a nuclear weapons storage bunker in Kaliningrad, a sensitive exclave of Russian territory, according to a new report. A Russian satellite that launched to Earth orbit last October has been behaving oddly, raising the possibility that the craft could be some sort of space … Russian media also floated the possibility of launching an underwater nuclear doomsday device at the US's coast. “Russia’s DA-ASAT test provides yet another example that the threats to U.S. and allied space systems are real, serious and growing,” said Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, the head of U.S. Space Command and chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force. Regarding the Russian satellite, Moscow's Defense Ministry announced in August 2017 that the maneuvering inspection satellite was launched from the … In October, CNBC learned that a never-before-seen Russian missile was a mock-up of an anti-satellite weapon that will be ready for warfare by 2022.

Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed his nation had successfully tested a nuclear-powered weapon.

A Russian satellite that launched to Earth orbit last October has been behaving oddly, raising the possibility that the craft could be some sort of space weapon, a U.S. diplomat warned. The Sevmash shipyard where the submarine is being built was not immediately available for a comment. A Russian satellite named Kosmos 2542 has positioned itself uncomfortably close to an American spy satellite named USA 245 in orbit around Earth. Russia Has Four Potential "Killer Satellites" In Orbit, At Least That We Know About The threat these so-called "space apparatus inspectors" pose is … It is controlled from the ground by signals sent from the Balashevo, a small warship disguised as a freighter.
Put it this way: In the 2013 film Gravity, a wayward Russian anti-satellite missile test spirals into a low orbit catastrophe. A Russian Soyuz 2.1v rocket launches a classified military satellite into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russian on Nov. 25, 2019. In 1977, a Dying Russian Satellite Created Havoc for One Reason: It Was Nuclear Powered. In addition to Nudol and the satellite behaviors described above, the report claimed Russia is developing on-orbit jammers powered by a nuclear reaction and a large laser designed to dazzle or damage satellites. Soviet high-powered low-orbit radar satellites, called RORSATS in the West, used small nuclear reactors to supply the radars' big power needs.

Images of … And Russia has been testing nuclear rocket … The nuclear-powered Soviet satellite Cosmos 1402 plunged through the atmosphere today and, if any of it survived, the debris apparently fell harmlessly into a section of the Indian Ocean. Europe Russia blast radiation caused by Skyfall missile, US experts say. Satellite imagery suggests it may not have gone so well. The Russian Navy’s press service did not comment on the information. …

In March 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of a new cruise missile that can travel any distance because it uses nuclear propulsion instead of … If you …
Russia conducted a direct ascent anti-satellite missile test April 15, according to a statement from U.S. Space Command. A lab with past experience in building nuclear reactors for space has been contracted for the project. Between 1970 and 1988, the Soviet Union launched 32 spacecraft with thermoelectric nuclear power reactors on board. The Soviet Nuclear Attack Satellite (ソ連地上攻撃用核衛星, Soren Chijō Kōgekiyō Kakueisei) is a Russian geostationary weapon which first appeared in the 1984 Godzilla film, The Return of Godzilla. "Russian intentions with respect to this satellite are unclear and are obviously a very troubling development," she added, citing recent comments made … And it was about to crash into the Earth. To Russian military officials, one of the appeals of the new class of hypersonic and undersea nuclear weapons is that they are not prohibited by any …