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MOSCOW (Reuters) -
Russia will in 2019 deploy the S-350 Vityaz new generation short-to-mid range
surface-to-air defence missile complex, the Russian Defence Ministry said on
Sunday, in a long-planned move to replace its ageing S-300 system.
The
ministry also said that the Russian military had deployed Pantsir-S and S-400
complexes in 2018 in Crimea, annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as well as in its
Arctic region, the Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea, and in its easternmost
Khabarovsk region.
Russia has
been flexing its military muscles abroad in recent years, and its involvement
in the Syrian conflict and Ukraine has soured relations with the West.
In a dispute over a
separate, longer range missile system, Washington has threatened to pull out of
the landmark 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), alleging that
a new Russian missile, the Novator 9M729 (called SSC-8 by NATO), violates the
pact.
The
landmark arms control treaty bans either side from stationing short and
intermediate-range, land-based missiles in Europe. Russia says denies the
missile violates the INF and accuses the United States of inventing a false
pretext to exit the treaty in order to develop new missiles.
President
Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would deploy its first regiment of
hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles next year, saying the move meant his
country now had a new type of strategic weapon.
Vityaz (Knight) is a
short-to-mid range surface-to-air defence missile system, developed by
Almaz-Antey Air and Space Defence Corporation.
The Kremlin
said in March Russia would cut its defence budget to less than 3 percent of
gross domestic product within the next five years.
Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by
Raissa Kasolowsky
Source: reuters.com
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