Moscow missile defense system will undergo modernization

The missile defense system of Moscow and the Central Industrial District in the near future will undergo modernization. This was stated by the head of the combat algorithm and connection programs about the VKS, Colonel Ilgar Tagiev, Interfax reports .

"Currently, work is being carried out to increase the technical characteristics of the pro -security system. The transition to a modern element base is completed. After two to three years, the system will be completely modernized," Tagiev said.

The system has turned 55 years old, and during this time several stages of its modernization have passed. “At present, the system is in service about the second generation, the beginning of the development of which was in 1980-90,” Tagiev said. “Work is underway to create promising anti -tanks, which will create a system about the third generation with new opportunities and characteristics.”

According to the colonel, the system guarantees protection "from the blows of all existing types of ballistic missiles of the enemy of the middle and intercontinental range with dividing combat units." “As for the existing and promising ballistic missiles of“ third countries, ”Tagiev emphasized,“ it does not represent their complexity for our system about our system. ”

In accordance with the Soviet-American agreement on the restriction of the 1972 missile defense systems and additional protocols to it, each of the parties had the right to have only one missile defense system, which completely covers the area with a radius of 150 kilometers. In the United States, such a system is located in the Grand-Ford air base in North Dakot. In 2002, the contract was terminated at the initiative of the United States.

On May 10, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel General Sergei Karakaev said that in connection with the improvement of the American missile defense system, Russia continues to develop the means to overcome it with intercontinental ballistic missiles. "The new missile systems of the Strategic Missile Forces have increased opportunities to overcome the existing and promising global PRO global system. This is also achieved by reducing the MBR dispersal section, and due to new types of combat equipment with a non -executive flight trajectory, and at the expense of new means of overcoming pro," the general said.

On May 13, Vladimir Putin said that Moscow would think about stopping the country's security threats after placing the ground base of the Europro system in Romania. “Now, after placing these elements, we will have to think about stopping the threats arising regarding the security of the Russian Federation,” Putin said. “We offered cooperation, joint work with American partners, all this was, in fact, rejected. We are not offered a job on a given topic. Nothing specific, everything is done unilaterally, excluding our concern, excluding, this is excited.”

According to the president, the US anti -missile defense is not a defensive system, but part of America’s strategic nuclear potential, which was taken on the periphery.