Okno designers get State Prize
- From: "Allen Thomson" <thomsona@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 14 Jul 2006 14:46:05 -0700
Apparently the Okno space surveillance site outside Dushanbe has done
well:
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http://www.president.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2005/06/12/1600_type82917_89528.shtml
June 12, 2005,
Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow
Transcript of the Ceremony for the 2004 Russian Federation National
Awards Presentation
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN:
Distinguished laureates,
Dear friends,
It is a great honour for me on this day, Russia's national holiday,
to confer on you the National Awards.
First of all, allow me to congratulate you on this day, the Day of
Russian Sovereignty.
[snip]
Dear friends,
Let me once again name the winners of the State Prizes.
Alexander Yuryevich Kvasnikov, Valery Ivanovich Kolinko and Arkady
Yevtikhyevich Vereshkin have been awarded a State Prize for creating a
principally new optic-electronic cosmic control complex. Their work
represents a genuine technological breakthrough, both in strengthening
cosmic security and in a whole number of so-called dual-purpose
technologies. Their work has given Russia an ultramodern and effective
instrument for ensuring its national security while at the same time
providing new opportunities for developing our peaceful space
programme.
[snip]
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http://enews.ferghana.ru/detail.php?id=95267645613.42,338,11358995
Okno ELINT complex in Tajikistan is becoming Russian
Ferghana.Ru, Staff correspondent, 17.04.2006
The Duma will discuss the Russian-Tajik accord on transfer of the
military object to Russian jurisdiction in the near future. The
government of Russia voted to forward the accord for ratification by
the Duma the other day. The matter concerns Nurek, an ELINT [sic,
probably not accurate] center of the airspace control known in the
Russian Defense Ministry as Okno or Window.
Press service of the government of Russia reports that the accord on
the center signed on October 16, 2004, in Dushanbe was endorsed and
about to be forwarded to the Duma for ratification. Lieutenant General
Alexander Kvasnikov, Chief-of-Staff and Senior Second-in-Command of the
Russian Space Forces, will represent the government of Russia in
ratification procedures at the Federal Assembly.
The choice is actually logical. Kvasnikov is one of Okno designers.
Kvasnikov and a team of Russian scientists became laureates of the
State Award of the Russian Federation in 2004. The scientists in
question include Valery Kolinko, Director of Design Bureau No 4 of the
Center of Science of the Zverev Krasnogorsk Factory, and Arkady
Bereshkin, Director of Complex No 57 of the Television Research Center.
Experts regard Okno center in Tajikistan as Russia's most valuable
military object on the territory of the republic. The
military-strategic role it is playing is already colossal and it is
bound to increase yet. In other words, the Okno's military-political
importance is going to be substantial in the relations between Moscow
and Dushanbe.
Located in the Sanglok mountains 2,200 meters above the sea level, the
complex in question is one of the most efficient means of the airspace
control system of the Russian Space Forces. The skies above it are
clear almost all year round.
Okno Commander Colonel Sergei Chistyakov says that the complex
automatically detects objects in the altitudes ranging between 2,000
and 40,000 kilometers, collects all available information on them,
calculates their orbits and trajectories, and flashes the information
to command centers. The complex may even be used to keep track of the
targets in the altitudes of between 120 and 2,000 kilometers.
Airspace is monitored at night when objects in space reflect sunlight
and the reflection provides the complex with the necessary information.
Okno is fully automatic. It may operate without human supervision,
keeping track of the known and newly detected objects. Since the
complex operates in the passive mode, it does not use too much of
electric power. (In fact, it needs as much as a house of 150 apartments
uses.)
The US Department of Defense has three similar objects. They use lasers
and therefore require more by way of electric power. In any case, Okno
is superior. Strategically speaking, the complex is a huge step forward
in Russia's ability to forecast aggressions against it and its allies.
An emphasis on advanced hi-tech weapons and military hardware is made
in modern warfare. Space is playing an important role in it,
particularly now that the United States is deploying a new ballistic
missile defense system with some elements of it in orbit around Earth.
It means that the role of Okno in military security of Russia and its
allies will only grow.
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