The first cruise missile-armed Iskander launchers will enter duty in 2009, the chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ rocket and artillery troops, Colonel-General Vladimir Zaritsky, said on Wednesday at a meeting with mass media on the occasion of Rocket and Artillery Troops Day, to be marked on November 19. “Cruise missiles are being tested, I am satisfied with the progress and I am certain that the task of providing enough launchers armed with cruise missiles will be coped with on time,” Zaritsky said. “The military-industrial commission under the Russian government has set 2009 as the deadline.”
He speculated the supplies of Iskander launchers and rockets to Belarus might prove an asymmetric response to the deployment of US missile defense components in Europe.
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