Russia is to focus on upgrading its Air Force and air defense system on priority. In his his annual address to the State Duma,Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, the Russian Air Force has already received some new S-400 systems and the the production of S-500 systems will be started in the future. He said the S-500 systems are capable of meeting air defense and missile defense tasks and destroy targets in near space. The Russian Prime Minister also said the Armed Forces will receive new strategic and tactical missile systems, such as RS-24 Yars, Bulava and Iskander M and the production of ballistic missile systems would almost double starting from 2013.