29.11.2011, 22:05, Svetlana Andreyeva, A long-range anti-missile radar has been put on combat duty in Russia’s northwestern region of Kaliningrad. President Dmitry Medvedev, who personally inaugurated the Kaliningrad radar on Tuesday, said that its key task was to provide early warning of possible missile attacks and to protect national security in the most missile-dangerous directions. He did not rule out the possibility of integrating the Kaliningrad radar into a joint Russian-NATO missile defense shield in the future but complained that Western partners were reluctant to cooperate in this sphere.The Voronezh-DM radar in Kaliningrad is a signal to the West that Russia will respond adequately to potential threats emanating from the U.S. anti-missile system in Europe, President Medvedev said ,Tags: missile defense, Russian-NATO relations, ABM , World, Commentary, Politics, Russia, Читать далее, Source: Voice of Russia.
