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Friday, June 29, 2012

Reducing reaction times key factor for Russian Air Force modernization

An-26 CurlNewly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force Victor Bondarev has given a press conference in Moscow.

Major General Bondarev related to journalists plans for the Air Force’s development, and voiced some previously unknown information.

C-500 in the year 2013

The greatest interest aroused by Bondarev’s statement was that the first complex of new generation C-500 anti-missile systems could be supplied to the troops already in 2013, though it had been previously announced that the system would only be ready for testing in 2015. Such a sharp “acceleration” of the process raises questions, but a possible explanation lies in the system being gradually brought to specified conditions.

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