SOCHI. Nov 29 (Interfax) - The tests of the new generation air-defense system S-500 will begin next year, Pavel Sozinov, general constructor of JSC Concern PVO Antei, said.
"We are now completing the work on the fifth generation system, S-500. The work is nearing completion. The years 2014-2015 will be devoted to all types of tests of this system. It will be subsequently put into service and its serial production will begin," Sozinov said in a report to President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on the development of the aerospace defense system in Sochi.