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• Sary Shagan :
  • 0.7 mm ruby laser
  • 10.6 mm pulsed CO₂ laser (Both lasers shared a common 1 m diameter beam director)
• Troitsk (near Moscow): 1 MW gas laser
• Storozhevaya : Elaborate free-electron laser (FEL) prototype ASAT weapon. Developed by the Astrophysika Scientific Production Association.
• Douchambe, Tadjikistan : Laser similar to MIRACL. (Tom Clancy's "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" has satellite images of the base).
• Russian Space Based Laser : Polyus/Skif-DM.
  • Participants:
    • Polyus was built by the Salyut Design Bureau and the Khrunichev Machine Building Plant.
    • Skif-DM designed by the Institute of Thermal Processes, well-known for its work with nuclear energy.
  • Purpose : Perfecting the design and on-board systems of a future military space complex with laser weaponing
  • Weight : 80-metric-ton vehicle.
  • Status: Destroyed during the first Energiya mission in 1987.
• Artist impression of a soviet laser-armed space battle station, derived from the DOS-7K Salyut space station, firing on a hostile satellite. from Zaloga, S.J. May 1997, Jane's Intelligence Review
• Unconfirmed reports of the USSR (former) mounting a high-energy anti-sensor chemical laser on a Russian Kirov-class cruiser. Successfully used against sea-skimming missiles up to a range of 16 km.
• from FAS - Russia and Anti-Satellite Programs - Lasers

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