Further Reading

Soviet BMD Programs

Russian defense industry has proposed to the Ministry of Defense streamlined version of missile defense system, which will cover the entirety of Russia with a missile defense dome. This was announced 07 June 2017 by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. "Interagency Working Group to establish the technical basis for the aerospace defense Russia has stated that industry and military science could provide the Ministry of Defense with a streamlined version of operational recovery missile shield of our country, including ground and space echelon, and that with the completion of the deployment the Unified Russian space system will be a closed antimissile dome", - he said.

General Resources

• Russian/Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems
• Missile defense system "C-225"
• 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