Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined the main elements of the Armed Forces, which will allow the re-protect it from any external threats for the next 30 years, leads RIA Novosti military expert comment, chief editor of "National Defense" Igor Korotchenko.
On Tuesday, the president said, that before the end of the year 14 regiments will be rearmed with modern ICBM "yars". Putin set the task to accelerate the production of anti-aircraft defense system S-500.
Putin outlined the most important to date, the prospects for creating and upgrading of key elements of the Russian Armed Forces, from which it depends crucially on the security of the Russian state in the foreseeable future. This re-strategic nuclear forces and the creation of air and space defense system of Russia, He said Korochenko agency.
According to him, "MBR “yars” with the possibility of equipping warhead can overcome any existing and future missile defense systems ".
The expert noted, that the system S-500 significantly enhance the ability of national air and missile defense: "It will be able to intercept and destroy attacking enemy warhead ICBMs in near space".
An important feature of the system S-500, he called her mobility, ie "the ability to transfer in threatened areas to create there a viable grouping of forces and means of air and missile defense".
C-500 will implement the principle of direct kinetic interception, provided that the new anti-aircraft guided missiles and long-range development of the complex means of control radar, added Korochenko.
