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ST. PETERSBURG - Russia offered to develop a joint non-strategic missile defense system with NATO four years ago, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov told a Saturday press
conference in St. Petersburg.
"Four years ago Russia offered NATO to cooperate in the creation of a joint missile defense system of the theatre of operations. That would be a non-global, non-strategic ABM network using
existing missile defense elements, such as Patriot missiles and S-300 and S-400 systems," he said.
"There has been a series of Russia-NATO computer drills, which confirmed that this project is feasible," Ivanov said.
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