Russia Has Technical Means to Destroy Satellites – Expert

MOSCOW. May 19 (Interfax) – The Russian Space Forces have the capability to destroy foreign military satellites, head of the Pilyugin research and production center for automaton and instrument- building Yefim Mezheritsky announced on Monday.

“We have read in the press and there is proof that the Chinese destroyed their satellite. And Americans destroyed their satellite, which allegedly posed a security threat and could have fallen on a continent. I think and I am sure that Russia also has such weapons which could be used when necessary,” he said in an interview with the Vesti-24 channel on the centennial of Nikolai Pilyugin, the founder of the prominent defense industry facility.

Mezheritsky said that Russian designers are making guided ballistic missiles.

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