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Friday, April 06, 2007

Russia to deploy new air defense systems in August

New air defense missile systems will be put on combat duty around Moscow in late August, a senior air defense commander said Thursday.

"We are expecting to receive S-400 systems in July-August, and put them on combat duty to protect the airspace around the capital at the end of August," Colonel-General Yury Solovyov, commander of the Air Defense Forces Special Command, was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency 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.

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