Chief
designer of the Russian "Radio-Electronic Technology Concern"
Yuri Majevski said that the enterprise is working on measures which
would counter the deployment of the US anti-missile defense system in
Europe.
The need for
a corresponding response to the deployment of the US missile defense
system near Russian borders was previously announced by former
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Majevski
said that the development of the response measures is a forced move
which resulted from the US’ excessive doctrine of a "prompt
global strike”. He also added that his enterprise is ready to take
necessary steps to develop high-performance defense tools and
implement them.
It was
reported earlier that the US Navy tested its anti-missile defense
system in Europe and that this move could be considered a signal of
the beginning of a new arms race.
The
ship-based missile defenses are designed to complement interception
stations to be built in Romania and Poland. According to a technical
agreement approved by Polish lawmakers, installations could be
completed as soon as 2018.
US plans to
create a missile defense system which is allegedly aimed at defending
its territory against ballistic missiles are one of the main problems
in Russian-American relations.
US officials
repeatedly said that the European missile defense system is not aimed
against Russia. Moscow, however, insisted on signing a legally
binding document on the issue, but its requests have not been taken
into account so far.
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