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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Finland Looks To Replace Russian SAM System

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3420681&c=EUR&s=AIR

HELSINKI - Finland's Ministry of Defense (MoD) is considering applying for special funding to finance a new surface-to-air missile (SAM) to protect the Helsinki area and strategic locations near the Finnish capital.

The timing of the MoD's appraisal follows several tests and reports undertaken by the Armed Forces Command (AFC) indicating that the present Russian-designed BUK-M1's guidance system (called the SA-11 Gadfly by NATO) may be liable to scrambling and susceptible to hostile electronic warfare...

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