ITAR-Tass reported Friday that Moscow’s missile defense system is likely to be enhanced within the next few years, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, Jan. 30).

Plans have been made to upgrade the system’s power and mechanical equipment, a computer complex, transmitting and receiving devices and other components, a Russian industrial-military complex official said (see GSN, Dec. 18, 2001).  It should take three to four years to complete the planned upgrades, the official said.

The former Soviet Union first deployed an anti-ballistic missile shield around Moscow in 1974 and Russia completed the latest upgrade in 1994, according to the Associated Press.  That upgrade, the A-135 system, includes long- and medium-range missile interceptors (Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press/Moscow Times, Feb. 11).

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