Moscow to Get New Air Defense System in August
Created: 06.04.2007 14:46 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:51 MSK
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According to a senior air defense commander Russia plans to put new air defense systems on combat duty around Moscow in the end of August.
“We are expecting to receive S-400 systems to protect the airspace around the capital in July-August,” Colonel-General Yury Solovyov, commander of the Air Defense Forces Special Command, was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.
The general said that the system could be also used for limited purposes in missile and space defense, but it is not intended to destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The system is highly capable of destroying stealth aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles with an effective range of up to 3,500 km and a speed of up to 4.8 km per second, he said.
The Russian Air Defense Forces currently deploy more than 30 regiments equipped with S-300 missile complexes, which will be gradually replaced with S-400 systems.
Moscow to Get New Air Defense System in August
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