OREANDA-NEWS  Russia is working on the creation of complexes for combating satellites, including the MiG-31D interceptor fighter with an anti-satellite missile and an aircraft with a combat laser based on the Il-76. This is stated in the publication of the magazine of the Ministry of Defense "Military Thought".

"Examples of Russian PSB complexes being created on a relocatable and mobile base are: the Contact PKO complex based on the MiG-31 heavy interceptor fighter; the A60 Sokol-Echelon combat laser system based on the Il-76 transport aircraft; the Peresvet combat laser system," the material says.

RIA Novosti notes that the last time it was reported on the creation of an anti-satellite air-based complex was in 2009. The Agency notes that a new aircraft-based complex for the destruction of low-orbit spacecraft is being developed on the basis of existing scientific and technical groundwork and newly developed technologies. Work on a similar system based on the MiG-31D carrier aircraft and the 79M6 Kontakt rocket has been carried out since 1984.

The Peresvet system was first announced by President Vladimir Putin during his address to the Federal Assembly in 2018. In the spring of 2022, the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, who at that time held the post of deputy prime minister, announced the serial delivery of the Peresvet to the Russian army. It can "dazzle" satellite systems in orbits up to 1.5 thousand km high.

In 2020, the Ministry of Defense reported on the development of counteraction to space satellites using the Tirada complex at exercises in the Sverdlovsk region. It is capable of carrying out electronic suppression of satellite communications with complete disabling. Satellite decommissioning can be carried out directly from the Earth's surface.