Russia’s Missile Attack Early Warning System to be Upgraded

Russia plans on modernising the capabilities of its missile attack early warning system, the Chief Designer of the Research Institute for Long-Range Radio Communications (part of RTI Group) Sergei Saprykin told TASS on Monday.

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According to Saprykin, the country's missile attack early warning system will boost its potential and detection capabilities. He added that although radar stations of the Russian missile attack early warning system entered service quite recently and have a service life of over 30 years, the system will be upgraded.

The chief designer also noted that following the upgrade of the system, the radar stations will get artificial intelligence elements but won’t start "thinking" on their own.

"Just imagine that a locator intended for preventing a nuclear missile strike would start to ‘think’ and acquire intelligence," the chief designer said, warning against this scenario.

TASS cited an earlier interview with CEO of RTI Group Pavel Laptayev where he said that Russia was preparing a project of modernizing radar stations of its missile attack early warning system. In particular, there are plans to use the computing capacities of data processing centers, artificial intelligence (machine learning), and big data analysis. This will help considerably speed up the task of defining the characteristics and the type of detected objects and the direction of their flight.

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