The Milcom Monitoring Blog has a very interesting story about the
degraded Russian Early Warning Satellite network. The editors note introduces the story:
This is in my opinion is a serious military situation. I would say that the Russian satellite based EW network is no longer operational and its capability is the most degraded I have ever seen in recent memory. They can only view the US mainland for early warning of a land based ballistic attack for six hours day (via Cosmos 2414). They have no early warning capability of a sea-based missile launch or a missile launch from any other part of the world. This is a scary situation now that the Strategic Forces is nearly blind to a missile attack. The orbital graphic below tells the tale of the tape.
The background of the post goes into good detail regarding the degradation of the network. Another excellent edition guys, keep up the good work.
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