BY : ITAR-TASS
State trials of the new cruise missile for Iskander systems are due to start next year, Land Troops commander Alexei Maslov stated on Friday.
"It is planned to complete defense sector tests in 2008 and hand it over for state trials," Maslov said.
The missile, test-fired at the Kapustin Yar range, Astrakhan region, on May 29, for the first time, "will boost, by an order of magnitude, the combat capability of the missile brigades armed with Iskander systems, in terms of precise striking of targets," the commander noted.
"It is planned to re-equip five missile brigades with these systems until 2015," he added.
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