OKB-155 (Mikoyan) ASAT

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R-7 launched ASAT system (ca.1958-1959) from MiG museum.
Photos (1,2) (c) Vadim Lukashevich (www.buran.ru), (3,4) (c) Sergey Kuznetcov aka Pilot (www.pilot.strizhi.info)

 

[blackstar]

I presume that is a co-orbital ASAT that would match orbits with the target and then smash into it?

It's been awhile since I've read about Russian ASAT development, but their later operational system used an explosive device, like a shotgun blast, to take out the target. Western reporting on this initially indicated that the entire vehicle would explode nearby. Later US Department of Defense artwork showed the front of a spacecraft exploding, sort of like a Claymore mine. But later imagery released from Russia indicated a small tube-like device, like the barrel of a shotgun. (Or, more precisely, like the anti-personnel cannons of the Civil War, often used on ships to repel borders.)

 

[cardonet]

R-7 launched ASAT system (ca.1958-1959) from MiG museum.
Photos (1,2) (c) Vadim Lukashevich (www.buran.ru), (3,4) (c) Sergey Kuznetcov aka Pilot (www.pilot.strizhi.info)

Seems to be a prototype of the Polyot ASAT launched in 1963-64.
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_098/pages/Img_103.html

Polyot-1 and Polyot-2 were developed under the supervision of Vladimir Chelomey, but between 1953 and 1955, Chelomey's OKB-51 was transferred to OKB-155.
http://www.nti.org/db/nisprofs/russia/delivry/npomash.htm

 

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Nope. This thing has nothing common to Chelomey's ASAT