We are protected by the "Pyramid"

The capital of Russia is the only city on the planet that is reliably protected by an anti-missile defense system. It is called A-135.

Its CORE is the Don-2N radar station, which is located thirty kilometers northeast of Moscow, near the village of Sofrino. It looks like an Egyptian pyramid. And it is designed for additional reconnaissance of targets, messages about which come from the early warning system. rocket attack, their support and for guiding interceptor missiles to these targets. It is clear that such targets may not be North Korean and Iranian missiles, but real ones - strategic ones, which are not possessed by Tehran and Pyongyang.

That is why the Moscow region "Pyramid" is called shooting practice. It is on her, in particular, that the presidential “black suitcase” closes, which in case of what should unlock the “start” button. It is “Don” that should launch several antimissiles with the exotic names “Kalosha” and “Gazelle”, which they gave in the West.

The first anti-missile B-1000 intercepted and destroyed the combat unit of the attacking ballistic missile even 4 March March 1961. The first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Nikita Khrushchev, got a fly in the eye, as the UN Secretary-General said from the tribune The Americans did it only thirty years later. The speed of that rocket was 1000 m / s, that is, three times the speed of sound. The current missiles fly ten times faster. And for them it is not the limit.

By the way, although these “interceptors”, as is clear from the text, for quite a few years, have not lost their fighting qualities. The military often conduct their tests at the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan. Last time in 2004. And there was no case that our "Kalosh" and "Gazelle" did not get where it should be. Tuck in tuck. The newest American antimissiles, as many know, have succeeded in lately only six times out of eight.

In order for this “shot” of the antimissile to be accurate, on each of the four sides of the Sofrinsky giant (its height above the ground is more than 30 meters — approximately a ten-story building, seven more floors underground) are located round grid of tracking antenna and interceptor missiles ), and square (16 x 10 meters) missile guidance antennas. The range of these antennas - three thousand kilometers. It is at such a distance that the Don can detect an adversary flying toward our capital.

During the seven years of shock work (from 1980 to 1987), 32 thousand tons of metal, 50 thousand tons of concrete, and 12 thousand tons of cable were poured into the construction of the Sofrino Pyramid ... And water and electricity, according to experts “Don-2N” spends each month as much as is required for a decent regional city like Kostroma.

By the way, the detente of world tensions almost played a cruel joke on the Moscow missile defense system. In the days of romantic democracy, when it seemed to everyone that the missile threat was no longer possible for the capital, A-135 was supposedly not needed by us. On it ceased to allocate funds. But common sense won.

The United States, this peaceful country, suddenly began deploying radar stations in Latvia and Norway. Improve similar radar in Greenland and the UK. Anti-missile launchers are being built in Alaska, their deployment in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic is being prepared ... So, A-135 will serve us.

Faces of the "Pyramid"

A-135 began to be created in the early seventies of the last century. Includes sofrinsky radar. It is closed warning system, whose ground stations are located on the borders of the former Union - in Olenegorsk (Murmansk region), Pechora (Komi Republic), in Gantsevichi (Belarus), Beregovo (Mukachevo district of Ukraine), and Nikolaev (Sevastopol region. Ukraine), in Gabala (Mingechaur region of Azerbaijan), on Balkhash (Kazakhstan) and in Mishelevka (Usolye-Sibirskoe of the Irkutsk region). The Space Monitoring System, consisting of three satellites, is also included in it.

In addition, A-135 includes one hundred antimissiles. The very "Galoshes" and "Gazelles", which are designed to intercept a rocket attack in the transatmospheric space and in the atmosphere of the Earth. They are located in the mines in eleven starting positions not far from the Pyramid itself. But within 150 radius of km from the center of Moscow.