The annual report of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia contains information on Armenia’s plans to modernize its air defense systems.

First of all, this concerns S-300 air defense systems. As a result of joint research of Russian and Belarusian experts, it was decided to upgrade these systems while using JSC “Patnesh” (Hrazdan), which is by one hundred percent financed by the government.

Note that the plant, built in the 1980s, as a regional center for the repair of military electronic equipment, has the appropriate industrial sites, buildings and structures for repairs of air defense systems S-300. Modernization of S-300 air defense systems was planned to be implemented in Yerevan plant “Avtomatika,” but there were no corresponding conditions there.