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Soviet BMD Programs

General Resources

• Projects of combat space complexes [Excerpt from "Rocket-Cosmonautics Corporation Energia named after S.P. Korolev 1946-1996, pages 419-420] [translated by Maxim Taraskenko]
• ABM AND SPACE DEFENSE A. Karpenko Nevsky Bastion, No. 4, 1999, pp. 2-47
• Space Monitoring System by Col-Gen (Ret) Yu.V. Votintsev VOYENNO-ISTORICHESKIY ZHURNAL No 11, 1993 pp 12-27
• Unknown Troops of the Vanished Superpower by Col-Gen (Ret) Yu.V. Votintsev VOYENNO-ISTORICHESKIY ZHURNAL No 9, 1993 pp 26-38

• The Death-Beam Gap - Keegan's Follies in Perspective - John Pike - October 1992
• Possible Soviet Responses to the US Strategic Defense Initiative Interagency Intelligence Assessment NIC M 83-10017 12 September 1983
• SOVIET STRATEGIC DEFENSE PROGRAMS DIA 1985
• SOVIET MILITARY POWER
  1989 CHAPTER IV - NUCLEAR, STRATEGIC DEFENSE AND SPACE PROGRAMS
  1988 CHAPTER IV - SOVIET STRATEGIC PROGRAMS AND SPACE FORCES
  1987 CHAPTER III - STRATEGIC DEFENSE AND SPACE OPERATIONS
  1986 CHAPTER III - STRATEGIC DEFENSE AND SPACE OPERATIONS
  1985 CHAPTER III - STRATEGIC DEFENSE AND SPACE PROGRAMS
  1984 CHAPTER II - FORCES FOR GLOBAL WARFARE
  1983 CHAPTER II - STRATEGIC FORCES

• Command and Control System and Its Current Status by Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT
• ABM Decapitation May 7, 1998 -- Russia has recently taken all nuclear warheads off the ABM interceptors based around Moscow. General Yesin explained that the interceptors remained with conventional warheads and could now provide a defense against a limited missile attack.
• Russian Anti-Ballistic Guided Missile Systems by Vladimir Trendafilovski
• SPACE MISSILE DEFENSE FORCES: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW Victor Smirnov Colonel-General, Commander of Space Missile Defense Forces Military Parade, July-August 1996
• ANTIMISSILE SHIELD OF THE CAPITAL Vladimir Kuzmenko, Headquarters of Space Missile Defense Forces MILITARY PARADE SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1997

• FER DE LANCE A Briefing on Soviet Scalar Electromagnetic Weapons by Lt. Col. T.E. Bearden (retd.), 1986 Weird Tesla stuff, for entertainment purposed only

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