Pravda:
Officials with the Defence Ministry informed about a successful test of a modernised missile defence system at the Sary-Shagan range in Kazakhstan. “The tactical and technical indicators of the missile concerning its range, accuracy and duration significantly exceed those of modern weapons,” Colonel Andrei Prikhodko, deputy commander of the Air Defence Missile Defence of Russia’s Aerospace Forces said.
Military expert Alexei Leonkov said in an interview with Pravda.Ru that it goes about a modernised version of a missile that Russia already has. “This is the A-135 conventional-based antimissile that protect the area around Moscow and central industrial areas.
“The modernized A-135 missile will fly farther and faster, and it will strike targets more accurately,” the expert said adding that a modernised missile stipulates an enhancement of its performance by 150 percent. “If the Defence ministry has not exposed any details about the new missile, it means that they do not want to expose details of the Russian nuclear doctrine to the Americans.”
