Monday 1 October 2018

MiG-31 with a secret anti-satellite missile seen in Zhukovsky

MiG-31 carrying 30P6 "Contact" anti-satellite missile - russiadefence.net


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September 30, 2018

Interesting photos of the experimental MiG-31 fighter (the onboard number 81 blue), which performs test flights in Zhukovsky with a suspended rocket of the anti-space (anti-satellite) aviation complex of a new type. It is reported that the test flights of the modified side (possibly designated as type "08") with this rocket have been carried out in Zhukovsky since February 2018.


It should be recalled that in the 1980s the creation of the anti-space defense complex 30P6 "Contact" (the main developer of the NPCB "Almaz") with the anti-satellite missile 79M6 (the developer of the ICB "Fakel") with the use of a specially modified MiG- 31D ("type 07"). As a means of target designation, the "Contact" complex was to use the radar-optical complex for recognition of cosmic objects of 45Zh6 "Krona" deployed at the Sary-Shagan range. The "Contact" complex, according to known data, was not brought to the stage of full flight tests and after the collapse of the USSR the work was stopped, and two already built MiG-31D fighter-carriers (on-board numbers "071" and "072") remained on the territory Kazakhstan. It is also known,


On August 11, 2009, the then commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force Colonel-General Alexander Zelin stated that "during the times of the USSR for the tasks of the anti-space defense a version of the MiG-31 aircraft was created" and that "this system is being reanimated to solve the same tasks." In 2009-2010, there were also reports on the modernization of the complex recognition of space objects "Krona" at the Sary-Shagan range.

Source: in24.org


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