Kazakhstan to spend $3.7 million on Joint CIS Air Defense System

    Kazakhstan will spend over 570 million tenge ($3.7 million) on the Joint CIS Air Defense System (JADS), Tengrinews reports, citing a news release from the Defense Ministry.
    Three countries are funding the JADS: Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus.
    "Roughly 573 million tenge ($3.7 million) have been set aside in the Defense Ministry budget for the development of the Joint CIS Air Defense System in 2014, including the provisions to sustain operation of the AA Defense Coordination Committee of the CIS for around 1.5 million tenge ($9,800)," the ministry said.
    The JADS is the first and only joint defense system in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). Since the year of its creation the amount of defense equipment at the European border of the CIS was doubled and at the southern border was increased 1.5-fold, according to www.tengrinews.kz.