| Russia's Glonass System Can Fully Switch to Domestic Electronics in 2 Years |
| Thursday, 01 October 2015 12:51 | ||||||
 Russia 13:51 01.10.2015Get short URL MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Russian Glonass global navigation system will fully switch to domestically-produced electronic components in the next two years, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Thursday.
"We have found solutions for switching to a domestically-produced [electronic] component base within a year and a half or two years," Rogozin said at an international congress on the ERA-GLONASS system. Glonass is a satellite navigation system operated by the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces. The Glonass project, launched in 1993, is considered to be Russia's answer to GPS (Global Positioning System).
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