The Roscosmos State Corporation is concerned that the United States and NATO are launching possible weapons carriers into space. This was announced by the CEO of the corporation Dmitry Rogozin on Saturday, November 20.
"There is a topic that cannot but bother us, it is the topic of the militarization of space. We see how in recent decades, the United States, first of all, and their NATO allies, have been launching into space not weapons, but potential carriers of these weapons," he said on the YouTube channel "Solovyov Live".
Thus, the CEO of Roscosmos concluded: Russia must have anti-satellite weapons. This is "an obvious thing," Rogozin stressed.
In the same broadcast, the CEO of Roscosmos said that Russia had been developing anti-satellite weapons for a long time, and it was no secret. He added that the Roscosmos Corporation has agreed with NASA on a joint mission to study Venus.
On November 16, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, said that the promising anti-satellite system "jewelry" hit the old satellite. Thus, he confirmed the successful test by Russia of the anti-satellite system, as a result of which the inactive Russian spacecraft "Tselina-D" was hit.
The Minister also noted that there was no threat to space activities during the testing of the system.
On November 17, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that Russia's tests of anti-satellite weapons undermine strategic stability in the world and pose a threat to it.
On November 18, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow regrets Washington's reaction to Russia's test of an anti-satellite system. She also accused the United States of hypocrisy, because Washington itself has taken a "clear course on the use of outer space for conducting military operations" since the 1950s.
