[CTRL] Fw: SN167:S-400 - Extraordinary Protection

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

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From: Elich, Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'siemvesti' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, July 07, 2000 7:43 PM
Subject: SN167:S-400 - Extraordinary Protection


>Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Moscow)
>June 30, 2000
>
>S-400 - EXTRAORDINARY PROTECTION
>
>By Colonel Anatoliy Petrov (Ret.)
>
>    The latest Russian air defense system provides over-the-horizon
>protection from any aerial attack.   Some people do not like this.
>
>    Coincidentally, both Russia and the United States are currently
>testing the latest generation of surface-to-air missile systems.   The
>Pentagon is completing its evaluation of the widely touted Patriot-3
>while Russian military personnel, scientists, and producers are carrying
>out live firings on the test range under the program of state trials of
>the S-400 surface-to-air missile system.   All 10 launches of the Russian
>system's missiles culminated in aerial target kills.   The Americans'
>results were much more modest.   Despite vast financial injections into
>research and development, the United States has not yet managed to make
>the Patriot-3 destroy tactical missiles or hit low-flying targets.
>
>    Tests of new models of weapons which are destined to become weapons
>of the 21st century arouse not only special services' heightened
>interest.   They also worry producers of military output and its
>potential purchasers.   Here many of the world's countries have turned
>their attention to the output of Russian defense complexes and above all
>of the Almaz [Diamond] Central Design Bureau -- leader in the development
>of surface-to-air missile systems.   In the opinion of Army General
>Anatoliy Kornukov, commander in chief of the Russian Air Force, the S-400
>system will be the best defensive weapon in the world in the next 20-50
>years.   Series production will begin once the state trials have been
>completed.
>
>    The S-400 could become a powerful battering ram capable of breaching
>the trade blockade in countries of the Asia-Pacific region.   The U.S.
>military-industrial complex' output has dominated for many decades here
>but the situation is changing and it cannot be ruled out that after the
>impending unification of North and South Korea it will be not Patriots
>but Russian S-400 systems that will be on alert status on the peninsula.
> This could be a subject of the talks during President Vladimir Putin's
>forthcoming trip to P'yongyang and Seoul.
>
>    The S-400 could quite possibly also become the main weapon of the
>incipient common-European security system.   Vladimir Putin's proposal to
>create a nonstrategic European air defense system struck a chord in
>France, Germany, and other European countries, which have become tired of
>U.S. hegemonism over the postwar decades.   After the missile and bomb
>strikes on Yugoslavia the Europeans became interested in strengthening
>their own security system and Russia could play in its formation the role
>of a leader who possesses the ideas, the scientific developments, and the
>latest technologies to produce ideal models of weapons.
>
>    Almaz is annoyed by intermediary structures which produce nothing but
>which merely sell its output.   The Defense Systems Open Joint-Stock
>Company was one such "benefactor."   Back in 1999 the Defense Ministry
>refused to issue it a license to carry out work under the state defense
>order but who would surrender such monetary positions without a fight?
>It is therefore entirely natural that its troubles started when Almaz
>claimed its rights to the weapons it had developed.   There followed all
>kinds of checks to find improper behavior, and although they uncovered
>nothing they are disrupting the creative collective's entire routine.
>

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