Air Defense Forces to Get New Defense Systems by 2020
11:59 10/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - All the Russian Air Force's air defense missile units will be reequipped with modern S-400 (SA-21 Growler), S-300V4 Vityaz (SA-12 Gladiator) and short-range Pantsyr-S1 (SA-22 Greyhound) gun/missile air defense systems by 2020, Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said on Friday.
“By 2020 we plan to reequip all units of Russian air defense missile units with modern S-400, Vityaz and short-range gun and Pantsyr-S1 air defense systems,” Bondarev said at a conference.
Russia's modern air defense systems are as good as, or even better than their foreign analogs, he said.
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