New Russian missile-defense radar system is world-first for helping intercept nuclear warheads, military industry chief reveals

Russia's Soviet-era nuclear

Russia’s Soviet-era nuclear defense shield has had a major overhaul and has now become one of the world’s most advanced military installations, benefitting from secret technology, one of the businesses behind the project has said.

Speaking to RIA Novosti at the ARMY-2021 conference on Thursday, the general director of RTI systems, one of the country’s largest defense contractors and a supplier of radar hardware and rocket technology, disclosed that the Don-2N station in the Moscow region had been upgraded. “It is now being tested,” Yuri Anoshko said.

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