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September 19, 2012

Russia Revamps Missile Defenses Around Moscow

By RIA Novosti

Russia Revamps Missile Defenses Around Moscow

Two launch sites near Moscow will be reactivated and equipped with new long-range missiles

From RIA Novosti:  Russia will reactivate mothballed ballistic missile silos around Moscow as part of deep modernization of a missile defense network protecting the Russian capital, former chief of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, Col. Gen. (Ret) Viktor Yesin said on Monday. . . .

Two launch sites with long-range 51T6 (NATO: SH-11 ‘Gorgon’) exo-atmospheric interceptor missiles were deactivated in 2007 as the missiles became obsolete. They will be equipped with new long-range missiles and reactivated during the modernization.

“There are no plans to build new launch sites as the mothballed ones will be reactivated,” the general said.  (photo: Michail Fomichev/RIA Novosti)

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