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. But fielding their newer, improved systems is being stymied by the collapse of Russian military spending and a lack of new foreign customers.
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