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Updated: 13:42 MSK
MosNews
Russia and the United States have begun joint
missile defence wargames aimed at protecting
vital installations in a third country in the course of
future international operations, a Russian
Defence Ministry release said Monday. The
wargames will last until April 23.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the
4th Central Research Institute of the Ministry in
Moscow is hosting the joint theater-wide ballistic
missile defence (BMD) command-post exercise
(CPX).
missile defence units in providing BMD coverage of a third country during a coalition operation under the aegis of
international organizations,” the release said.
Computers will be used to simulate the operation of theatre-wide BMD systems, non-strategic ballistic missile
attacks, interception, communications and early-warning data exchange, it said.
The current exercises are the fourth in a series of theatre-wide BMD CPXs, launched in 1996. Two of the previous
exercises were conducted in the U.S. and the other in Russia.
“The theater-wide BMD exercise program is designed to further promote Russian-U.S. cooperation aimed at
building trust and bolstering the positive relations between the two militaries,” the Ministry of Defence release said.
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