alt.war.nuclear

Vance P. Frickey pisze:
> Maybe you need some lessons as to your country's alliance
> with the Chinese - under the Shanghai Cooperation Community,
> I'd say that one or more hydrophone nets are available to
> Russia and/or China acting cooperatively as legacy assets
> from the Cold War. Not to mention RORSATs, which have
> probably been maintained reasonably well.

All MKRC-1 satellites, T-95D planes and CAESAR system are dead today.
Russian Navy is blind at longer ranges and that is all!

> According to the most recent DoD assessment of the Chinese
> military posture, I don't find it improbable at all that
> Russia could supply new RORSATs (like Cosmos 954) and either
> launch them themselves or supply them to China - heck, China
> was launching military payloads for us until they decided to
> start killing their own civilians off in droves again.

I don't think Russia could even restart RORSAT/EORSAT production for
export purposes because their key elements were made on Ukraine. Russian
launched several of them after 1991 because those were accessible as a
backup satellites kept reserve by USSR for hypothetical war purposes.
Moreover I don't think China is the most preferable Russian ally. It
seems rather otherwise in the longer run.

> Of course, we could start knocking RORSATs down in an
> emergency, now that we know how to do it - preferably BEFORE
> they could locate our boomers in a shooting war.

Firstly, this satellites couldn't locate submarines but only surface ships.
Secondly, thanks for explanation why was this ASAT test made. Only
another type of satellites will be its most probable wartime targets. :)