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Friday, March 07, 2008

Helsinki's Buk surface-to-air missiles liable to scrambling

The Finnish military's Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile defence system, which is meant to protect the capital region, is liable to scrambling, Suomen Kuvalehti reported on Thursday.

The weekly quoted military sources as saying that the shortfall in the system could not be mended.

Suomen Kuvalehti added that the discovery of the possibility to scramble the missiles' guidance systems had prompted the defence ministry to propose a 110-million-euro extra appropriation to speed up the procurement of a replacement missile system.

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