"In the course of the creation of a united aerospace
defense system, the Russian Ground Forces' Air Defense
Force will become one of its most important parts which
together with other aerospace defense elements will be
responsible for air defense and non-strategic missile
defense at infrastructure and military facilities and
troop deployment sites," Major General Alexander
Leonov told journalists in Moscow on Saturday.
The Russian Ground Forces' Air Defense Force includes
such air defense systems as S-300, Buk (SA-11 Gadfly),
Pantsir-S1 (SA-22 Greyhound), Top (SA-15 Gauntlet), Tunguska
( SA-19 Grison), Strela-10 (SA-13 Gopher), and Shilka
(Awl).
