👉 Okay, let’s tackle this… thing called, frankly rather wonderfully weirdly named… "рсат³.’
Now, I have to preface this by saying that unless you were somehow involved in a very specific and probably slightly illicit corner of the late-era Cold War weapons development sector (seriously! yell it out at your own peril if you actually stumble upon this anywhere!) then you almost certainly haven't heard of рсат³. Basically, it was a classified Soviet designation for an… let’s just generously call it… an “atmospheric distortion projector. .² That means rather than outright obliterating something, or even jamming communications like a typical weapons systems, it weaponised the weather . Specifically. There are no real photographs of actual рсат³ units to exist today. The project was officially terminated in 1980 when scientists found that the effect on the climate was… catastrophic. The whole point of рсат³, according to the surviving (and very paranoid) documentation, was to engineer localised and intensely depressing downpours – absolutely relentless drizzle. Not a hail or a thunderstorm. Just. Constant. Dripping . The idea was that the sheer misery caused by perpetual damp would demoralise the urban population, thus weakening resistance against... whatever. 1980s paranoia was a very weird thing. The '³? It's where the whole thing got even weirder and I don’t have a
