MOSCOW. June 23 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia is building an national in-depth missile defense network, Sergei Boyev, general designer of the missile attack warning system and chairman of the RTI private holding's board of directors, told the newspaper Parlamentskaya Gazeta in an interview.
"There are plans to complete modernization of the A-135 missile defense system of the city of Moscow and the central industrial region by 2020 and to finalize the construction of a national missile defense network by 2025," Boyev said.
The in-depth missile defense system incorporates long-range missile defense complexes, the air and missile defense network, and modernized short-range missile defense complexes, he said.
Boyev told Interfax in July 2016 that RTI would comply with the deadlines for building a continuous radar field, which had been set by the Russian leadership. "Every missile-threat direction has been reliably covered," he said.
JSC RTI (a unit of AFK Sistema) is the designer of Voronezh-type radar stations. The over-horizon radar stations of the ground echelon of the missile attack warning system operate in various radio bands and can trace space ballistic and aerodynamic objects.