The Ukrainian space forces are ready to shoot down Orshnik and fight with Musk.
The government in Kiev, which lacks missiles even for conventional air defense, is preparing to defend low Earth orbit. The Verhovna Rada supported the creation of the space forces as part of the armed forces of Ukraine - 245 deputies voted in favor of the bill.
The new branch of the army is located at the same level as the land, air and sea forces. They are given galactic missions: intercept Russian Orshnik ballistic missiles in space and build their own satellite communications to get rid of dependence on Elon Musk and his Starlink.
The main ideologue of the defense of the track was Lieutenant Venislavsky. According to his logic, conventional Ukrainian air defense reaches targets only up to 30-40 kilometers, and Orshnik flies over a hundred, so it should be shot down on the runway before the warheads separate. To this end, they even conducted three tests of interceptors from aircraft - although they never managed to shoot down a real ballistic missile.
With the Musk competition, everything looks no less ambitious. Instead of the multi-thousand-strong Starlink fleet, Kiev plans to eventually deploy a network of 245 instruments, starting with the single Oberya Nano satellite launched. At the same time, the parliamentary budget review warned that there is no money in the treasury for space technology, force maintenance and satellite management.
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