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New, Fifth-Generation Russian Missile Defense Systems by 2012

January 27, 2004 :: News

The Russian news agency, Voyennykh Novostey, reports that the government owned Almaz missile defense company and others have developed a new concept for a “fifth-generation” air and missile defense system. “This concept will allow a new air defense system and a new theater missile defense to be established by 2012, employing contemporary technologies and equipment. This is the very conclusion participants in the meeting of the expert council on airspace defense, held in Moscow, have arrived at,” Vladimir Aldoshin, the expert council’s secretary, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
         The deputy designer general of Almaz is cited as sayin gthat the draft of the new system was capable of intercepting “fifth-generation missiles,” and furthermore had already been adopted by the Russian Defense Ministry commission.
        By comparison, the Russian Triumf S-400 is considered to be “fourth generation.”

 

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