Construction work is underway at the Russian Defense Ministry’s Krona space facility near Zelenchukskaya in southwest Russia, home to the huge Ratan-600 radio telescope. Because of this new complex a Investigation by The Space Review Highlights, who analyzed public satellite images, tender documents from Russian industrial contractors and Russian financial documents – Books Space.com.

All of these sources describe Project Kalina as a laser system designed for “photoelectric warfare” that permanently blinds enemy moons By damaging the optical sensors with powerful laser pulses. This is very different from other known lasers, which only temporarily blind optical systems.

Russian patent and procurement documents reveal that the facility has a separate tracking system and adaptive optics that better reduce atmospheric interference. Besides this system, the device itself also has a transceiver system that measures the laser light reflected from the target to better direct it directly to the optical systems of the target object.