The American cruiser USS Monterrey with Aegis interceptor rockets on board cruised the Black Sea in June, stirring Russian suspicions that the US is less than serious about honouring understandings at the NATO-Russia summit in Lisbon last November to develop anti-missile systems in and around Europe in close cooperation.If NATO opts to go it alone, Russia will have to consider a serious beef-up of its ABM and air defence muscle. We hear about this from Lower House deputy. Colonel General Igor Puzanov:
"Russia’s Air and Space Defence Force already possesses capabilities to knock out jets, ballistic and cruise missiles and even satellites. Now, it will also have to deploy systems for neutralizing anti-missile defenses, positioned close to its western and southwestern borders."
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