Russia to boost its air and missile capabilities to response against the U.S. Prompt Global Strike

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Russia to boost its air and missile capabilities to response against the U.S. Prompt Global Strike.
Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces’ deputy chief, Major General Kirill Makarov, announced Sunday, April 5, 2114 that Russia must boost its air and missile defense capabilities to response against the U.S. Prompt Global Strike (PGS). Prompt Global Strike (PGS) is a United States military effort to develop a system that can deliver a precision-guided conventional weapon airstrike anywhere in the world within one hour, in a similar manner to a nuclear ICBM.
     
     
“It is precisely to combat these aerial assets that we are building the air and missile defense of Russia’s system,” Makarov said.

Moscow adopted a new military doctrine in December 2014, which listed the PGS concept as well as NATO’s military buildup along the Russian borders as the main security threats against the country.

“Russia is capable of and will have to develop a similar system,” Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said last year, referring to the PGS.

Elsewhere, Makarov said Russia is building a new generation mobile surface-to-air missile system, the S-500, to intercept supersonic targets, adding that the missile for the system is “still under development.”

Moscow has also successfully tested a new longer-range guided missile for the current generation S-400 surface-to-air air defense system.

“Tests are currently in full swing. Three days ago we successfully carried out testing of a surface-to-air missile which successfully hit its target,” Makarov said.

Based on Russia’s estimates, the United States will have as many as 8,000 cruise missiles, some 6,000 of which will be capable of carrying nuclear warheads, by 2020.