The long-range missile for Russia’s state-of-the-art S-400 Triumf (Triumph) anti-aircraft complex is to be created this year. “As a matter of fact, we are at the stage when the development of the missile is about to be completed. I believe that the task will be accomplished in 2012,” Alexander Zelin, the commander of Russia’s Air Force said. “The S-400 is a new system,... 

A chilling report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for President Medvedev by Colonel General Alexander Zelin, Commander-in-Chief of Russia’s Air Forces, says that the deadly crash this past week of a Kogalymavia Airline flight enroute from the western Siberian town of Surgut to Moscow was due to a ‘critical failure’ of the Tupolev-154’s electronic avionics systems that was unable...