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, Dec 11, according to RIA Novosti.
"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, 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.
Russia's plans to update the system were announced by the former chief of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, Col. Gen. (Ret) Viktor Yesin in September.
The A-135 system, development of which started in 1971, was first deployed in 1995. It uses the Don-2N battle management radar and two types of ABM missiles.
