OREANDA-NEWS. On April 17, 2008. The state-owned Yuzhnoye design bureau has allocated UAH 25 million from the budget of the Defense Ministry (UAH 5,05/\\$1) to draw up technical documents on the promising operational-technical missile system, the bureau's general designer, Stanislav Koniukhov, said.

Dnipropetrovsk designers have already started developing projects for the future Ukrainian complex.

The Missile Technology Control Regime prevents countries that own similar missile systems from selling missiles with a flying range of over 300 kilometers abroad. This prevented the Ukrainian military men from creating the Borysfen system, the work on which has been stopped five years ago, however, in the late 1990s, it was planned to modernize weapons of the Ukrainian army with similar systems.

"The flying range of missiles, which are being developed by designers, is around 200 kilometers," Koniukhov said. "Thus, Ukraine will be able to sell them to third countries," he said. The cost of putting the new weapons in production is assessed at UAH 2 billion. The contract signed between the Yuzhnoye design bureau and the Ukrainian Defense Ministry foresees the creation of the operational-technical missile system until 2015. Ukraine will then be able to sell ballistic missiles on the world trade market, the volume of which is assessed by specialists at billions of dollars.