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| Wednesday,
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| Russia
discuss on the modernization of Iskander SS-26 Stone tactical missile production
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Russian
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will hold a meeting in Kolomna in the Moscow
Region on Monday, July 23, 2012, to discuss modernizing production facilities
for Iskander
tactical missile launchers, the government’s press office reported
on Sunday, July 22, 2012.
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The meeting will
be held on the premises of the Kolomna Machine-Building Design Bureau
and will also be attended by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, heads
of core ministries and departments and defense enterprises.
Russia is currently building and modernizing the production capacities
of 17 core enterprises for the serial production and deliveries of Iskander-M
tactical missile launchers. Total investments from the federal budget
and the enterprises’ own funds are estimated at 40 billion rubles
($1.25 billion).
The Iskander-M
system (NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) is a mobile theater
missile system equipped with two solid-propellant single-stage 9M723K1
guided missiles with "quasi-ballistic" capability.
The missiles have a range of 400 km (250 miles) and can reportedly carry
conventional and nuclear warheads.
Moscow reiterated in late April it may deploy Iskander theater ballistic
missiles in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad that will be capable of
effectively engaging elements of the U.S. missile defense system in
Poland.
The missile defense system in Poland does not jeopardize Russia’s
nuclear forces, Army General Nikolai Makarov, chief of the General Staff
of the Russian Armed Forces, previously said.
“However, if it is modernized…it could affect our nuclear
capability and in that case a political decision may be made to deploy
Iskander systems in the Kaliningrad region,” he said.
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