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In a report at Infox.ru Alina Chernoivanova (whose information is always very timely and highly reliable) quotes Vladimir Popovkin, the Chief of Armament of the Armed Forces, as saying that the flight tests of the new type of early-warning satellites...
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The first satellite of the new space-based early-warning system, EKS, is expected to take place in November 2015, according to Oleg Maydanovich, the commander of the Space and Air Defense Forces. A year ago, the launch of the new satellite,...
According to the deputy minister of defense, the industry has delivered the first two satellites of the new-generation early-warning system known as EKS. The first launch of a new satellite is expected to take place in November-December 2015, very much...
On November 17, 2015 at 09:34 MSK (06:34 UTC), the Air and Space Forces successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b launcher from the Plesetsk site. According to the official statement, the launcher carried "a new-generation satellite for the ministry of defens...
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On May 22, 2020 at 10:31 MSK (07:31 UTC), the Air and Space Forces successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b launcher from the launch pad No. 4 of the launch complex No. 43 of the Plesetsk site. The satellite delivered to...
Russia began deployment of the EKS/Kupol space-based segment of its early-warning system in 2015, with a launch of Cosmos-2510 on 17 November 2015. That was the first of six Tundra launches - Cosmos-2518 in May 2017, Cosmos-2541 in September 2019,...
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That Popovkin has told actually :-)))
[That the launches and missiles were detected by ground-based early-warning facilities]
Oops. Looks like I missed the key word. Thank you. I will just scratch the whole update.
The numbers still seem a bit off - what is the "foreign ballistic missile", for example? I'll need to take another look at it.