Moscow to upgrade missiles
China Daily | Updated: 2008-12-02 07:50
The Russian military will upgrade its missiles in response to UN plans for weapons in space, a top Russian general reportedly said yesterday.
Interfax news agency quoted Russia's Strategic Missile Forces chief, Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov, as saying that Russia's intercontinental ballistic missiles will be modernized to protect them from space-based components of the UN missile defense system.
The upgrade will make the missiles' warheads capable of flying "outside the range" of the space-based system, Solovtsov was quoted as saying.
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