Leading specialist of the Phobos Weather Center, Yevgeny Tishkovets, told the Russian News Service that the Russian army has climate weapons, but they have never been used.
“I am a reserve lieutenant colonel, and I headed a department in the General Staff that dealt directly with climate weapons. There are such weapons, and they are comparable to the impact of nuclear weapons. It has never been used by Russian troops, but it is. The Americans have it, they occasionally indulge in it - in 2005, in Yugoslavia, as well as in Vietnam and Korea, where the United States destroyed agricultural crops,”he said.
According to the forecaster, it is very difficult to calculate the consequences of the use of climate weapons, so now they are "frozen".
Also, in 2013, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Igor Ostretsov spoke about the development of Russian climatic weapons back in the days of the USSR:
“In the 70s of the last century, I happened to participate in one research project that could lead to the creation of one. We assumed that the Earth's climate can be controlled by influencing the magnetosphere of our planet. By the way, there were many such projects, but ours was the most effective - we were going to inject very powerful plasma flows into the magnetosphere.
These streams would collide with particles trapped in space trapped in the Van Allen belts, and they would, figuratively speaking, fall down due to a change in the direction of their velocity vector (from longitudinal to transverse).
According to our assumption, after the precipitation of such particles in the region of the poles of our planet, a strong impact on the local air masses should have begun, and this, in turn, would have provoked climatic changes. However, I can say for sure that this project remained only on paper - we did not even begin the first stage of experiments. And, probably, it's for the best."