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The Russian Navy plays a crucial role in Russia's space activities, primarily through its need for satellite-based capabilities. It relies on military satellites for reconnaissance, communication, navigation, and targeting, including systems like the Pion-NKS radar reconnaissance satellite for maritime surveillance. Additionally, the Navy has been involved in the development and deployment of anti-satellite systems. Associated keywords include military satellites, space-based reconnaissance, maritime surveillance, and anti-satellite capabilities.
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The Liana system provides SIGINT for the Russian Navy.
Russia launched the Pion satellite in 2021 to provide SIGINT-cued synthetic aperture radar (SAR) capability for the Russian Navy.
Pion is an ELINT and SAR imaging satellite capable of guiding Russian Navy missiles to their targets.
Kuznetsov is currently in the Russian Navy and undergoing overhaul.