MOSCOW. Jan 9 (Interfax-AVN) - Power modules for the anti-satellite system Tirada have been created, an informed source told Interfax.
"Super-powerful power modules are already being used," he said.
The press service for the Central Military District said in December 2018 the anti-satellite system Tirada-2S would start being put into service in 2019.
The radioelectronic jamming system Tirada-2S is capable of radioelectronic suppression of satellite communication, including complete disabling. Satellites can be disabled directly from the Earth surface, the Central Military District press service said.
An informed source in the defense industry told Interfax on October 27, 2018 Russia had tested systems that can disable enemy communication satellites. "The system Tirada-2S has already been tested, the state commission has given its recommendations," he said, without giving any details. The system will be operated by special operators, the source said.
A source told Interfax in January 2018 the Russian military in the near-term perspective could receive systems that could disable enemy communication satellites.
"One of the projects is Tirada-2. The experimental design work began back in 2001," the source said. This system can disable communication satellites from Earth, the source said. "It uses radioelectonic suppression. It's a multi-million project," he said.
A contract to supply to the Russian Defense Ministry the newest radioelectronic suppression system to suppress satellite communication Tirada-2.3 was signed in public at the forum ARMY 2018 in August. According to the Defense Ministry, the supply of new-generation jamming stations will begin this year. The contract is executed by the Vladimir Elektropribor plant.
Oleg Achasov, deputy head of the 46th Central Scientific Research Institute, said on November 30, 2017 Russia was working on the creation of weapons to suppress satellites. Specifically, he spoke about work on an attack anti-satellite system and the mobile system Tirada-2S for radioelectronic attacks against communication satellites.