MOSCOW. July 3 (Interfax) - The Moscow missile defense system will be modernized by being equipped with new countermissiles in the near future, Russian Aerospace Forces Commander-in-Chief Sergei Surovikin said.
"No doubt, one of the most important tasks faced by defense enterprises is modernization of the current A-135 city of Moscow missile defense system, which is on combat duty," he said in an interview with the agency newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.
"The system is now being tested and the Aerospace Forces will receive a modernized multi-purpose radar station and modernized countermissiles of the air defense system in the near future," the commander-in-chief said.
"The capabilities of the fire weapons to defend the capital of our Motherland and the Moscow industrial region will be doubled, which has been repeatedly confirmed by preliminary tests of the countermissile," Surovikin said.