Russian Long-Range Air Defense Efforts Bloom

By Maxim Pyadushkin.
Moscow.

Russia is ramping up fielding of its newest long-range air defense system and has put the follow-on missile defense capability on a firm development path.

The future of Russia’s air defense is based on the S-500 missile system, which, according to the head of the Space Defense Strategic Command, Lt. Gen. Valery Ivanov, is being developed to have exo-atmospheric intercept ...

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