Fon ["Background"] program
In the early 1970s, research and development work on the Fon ["Background"] program was carried out in the USSR in order to create a promising missile defense system. The essence of the program was to create a system that would keep all nuclear warheads of Americans "on target", including even those based on submarines and bombers. The system had to be based in space and hit American nuclear missiles before they started. Work on the technical project was carried out at the direction of Marshal Dmitry Ustinov in the NGO Kometa.
In the late 1970s, the "Fon-1" program was launched, providing for the creation of various types of beam weapons, electromagnetic cannons, anti-missiles, including multi-shot with submunitions, multiple-launch systems. However, soon many designers at one of the meetings decided to curtail the work, since, in their opinion, the program had no prospects: in the Central Research Institute of Comet, as a result of the work on the Von program, they came to the conclusion that to destroy all the US nuclear potential at all types of carriers (10 thousand charges) for 20-25 minutes of flying time is impossible.
Since 1983, the "Fon-2" program was launched. The program provided for in-depth research into the use of alternative means capable of neutralizing US SDIs with "non-lethal weapons": an electromagnetic pulse that instantly disrupts the operation of electronic equipment, the impact of lasers, a powerful microwave field change, and so on. As a result, quite interesting developments have appeared.
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