COVER STORY
Russia’s Top Designers Claim Antistealth Skills
MOSCOW and ZHUKOVSKY Russia’s surface-to-air missile designers say they’ve improved their products with greater range, improved lethality and the ability to detect stealth aircraft and missiles. Russia’s top surface-to-air missile (SAM) system builders, Antey Industrial Co. and Almaz Central Design Bureau, have developed, beginning in the 1950s, the air defense systems most battle-tested and feared by U.S. military planners.
By DAVID A. FULGHUM,ROBERT WALL6 min