A patent for a transporter erector launcher (TEL) published in 2019 has recently been linked by several analysts to Nudol. https://patents.s3.yandex.net/RU187952U1_20190325.pdfThe first three attachments are taken from this patent. The official patent holder is the Ministry of Defense, but the authors can be identified as working for the Design Bureau of Special Machine Building (KBSM), which is known to have a role in developing Nudol’s TEL (based on some of its annual reports). There is no specific reference to Nudol in the patent description. Presumably, the conclusion that this is the Nudol TEL is based on the fact that it looks identical to a drawing of a TEL with two missile launch tubes that appeared in a 2015 calendar of Almaz-Antei, Nudol’s prime contractor (see attachment 4). This has been interpreted by some Russian analysts as showing the Nudol TEL, although that has never been confirmed.
Incidentally, the inspection report for OKB Novator mentions something called “103T6/Novator”. This probably is a new anti-missile project of OKB Novator. The only other place where 103T6 appears is the 2020 annual report of PAO Radiofizika, which probably develops radar systems in support of this project. Possibly, this is supposed to become the medium-range component of the upgraded A-235 ABM system to defend the Moscow region against missile attacks. What likely will become the system’s short-range component, Novator’s 53T6M, has been undergoing test flights for about a decade. The long-range component is probably supposed to become the MIT Corporation’s Aerostat/106T6 missile (which possibly has an added ASAT capability).
ASAP’s Mark Sirangelo says the ISS received 681 conjunction notifications through June 1 of this year; 505 linked to Russian ASAT test. Number of conjunctions has increased “by multiples” in recent years.
Allegedly this a PL-19 / NUDOL ASAT test launch:
Quote from: Star One on 08/31/2022 11:13 amAllegedly this a PL-19 / NUDOL ASAT test launch:This is not Nudol. The desert-like terrain seen in the video suggests this is an anti-missile test launch from Kapustin Yar or Sary Shagan. It's definitely not Plesetsk, which is the home base of Nudol. Many websites confuse Nudol with the A-235 anti-ballistic missile system to be installed around Moscow and incorrectly link test flights under A-235 to Nudol. This also seems to have happened here. We do know what Nudol looks like (see Reply 122), but so far the Russians have released no video of it.
