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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Moscow to Get Updated Missile Defenses - Deputy Minister


A-135 anti-ballistic missile system (Naro-Fominsk-10)
Russia's anti-missile defense system covering Moscow and Russia's central industrial regions will be augmented by unspecified new systems in the near future, Deputy Defense Minister Oleg Ostapenko said on Tuesday.

"We have a range of new objects which we are obliged to defend, and we'll defend them. There are new developments in some fields, and I think they will be deployed in the near future," said Ostapenko, when asked when a new missile system would be fielded to replace the capital's ageing A-135 system.

"You will probably find out more about them in the near future," said Ostapenko, a former aerospace force commander before taking up his new appointment recently.

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