MOSCOW. July 3 (Interfax-AVN) - A Joint Strategic Air and Space Defense Command has been created for the first time in the Russian Armed Forces, a source with the Russian General Staff told Interfax on Friday.
"The new military command body is using the base of the special purpose command [formerly Moscow air force and air defense district] which was disbanded on July 1, as well as a number of other structures of the Air Force and the Space Forces," the source said.
The Joint Strategic Air and Space Defense Command is expected to be formed by the year's end, its headquarters will be located near Balashikha, Moscow region where the headquarters of the 1st air defense corps was previously located, he said.