On March 22, Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu declared that Russia will complete the modernization of the missile defense system around Moscow by the end of 2023. He also announced the ...

The war in Ukraine shows that Russian ground-based air defence is capable of inflicting serious losses on an adversary. If Joseph Stalin saw artillery as the ‘God of War’, then the Soviet Union’s ...

It used two missiles, the Novator 53T6 (NATO code name: Gazelle) endoatmospheric interceptor and the OKB Fakel 51T6 (code name: Gorgon) exoatmospheric interceptor. Both interceptors used ten ...

While Russia’s Ministry of Defense declined to name the missile, the weapon appeared to be a 53T6M, a replacement for the 53T6 “Gazelle” interceptors used in Moscow’s A-135 missile defense system.

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Prior official statements suggest that the weapon is a modernized variant of the 53T6 interceptor, a component of Russia’s A135 missile defense system.

It it believed that the interceptor is the replacement of the 53T6 anti-ballistic missile system,which is part of a high-tech missile shield protecting the western Russian capital Moscow.

Beijing News comments: According to Russian media reports, the missile is an upgraded version of the 53T6 short-range nuclear anti-ballistic missile, which was a main ingredient of the Soviet ...

Beijing News comments: According to Russian media reports, the missile is an upgraded version of the 53T6 short-range nuclear anti-ballistic missile, which was a main ingredient of the Soviet Union's ...

It it believed that the interceptor is the replacement of the 53T6 anti-ballistic missile system,which is part of a high-tech missile shield protecting the western Russian capital Moscow.

Russia never did. Even today, Moscow’s periphery has multiple deployed nuclear-tipped 53T6 Gazelle interceptors. The benefit of nuclear-tipped interceptors in a missile defense application is ...