Soviet Space Battle Platform

Found some interesting info on a now-defunct project the Soviets were working on in the mid-1980's, in response to the US SDI Program.

Called POLYUS, this was a large Soviet satellite / small space station designed for ASAT missions. Future plans were to include a solid-state laser.

Good info can be found here, and some good photos can be found on this forum.

Really makes you wonder what those red scientists were working on back then...........

Here is some photos.











Originally posted in militaryphotos.net forums here is the link to the thread

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Can anyone here translate that into English?