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Russia to Create Shield in Addition to Sword
Russia’s First Vice Premier Sergey Ivanov set a new task at the yesterday’s sitting of the Government’s Military and Industrial Commission – to create a weapon that would simultaneously secure aircraft, missile and space defense. The designer will be Almaz-Antey Consortium, in which division, Almaz Research and Production Enterprise, the Commission met actually.
To begin with, it was decided to set up a head design office based on Almaz-Antey facilities that will consolidate all research and engineering arms of the air defense – Air Forces, Navy, Army, Automatic Control Systems and Ballistic Missile Defense. The designers will have to come up with the G5 weaponry that would combine combat, information and control features based on the core and emergency technologies.
The matter at stake is “a very serious, expensive and innovatively unique project,” said First Vice Premier Sergey Ivanov, who was the defense minister in Russia not long ago. The deadline is 2015. It should be accurately observed no matter what, as the safety of Russia’s air and then of the outer space is at stake.
Of interest is that, last time, the Military and Industrial Commission met in Precision Instrument Research Institute to focus on creating the precision weaponry, the so-called sword of the Army. It looks like the time has come to think about the shield for it.
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