Finnish Government, The Finnish military's Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile defence system, which is meant to protect the capital region, is liable to [jamming], the Suomen Kuvalehti [magazine] reported on Thursday.
The weekly quoted military sources as saying that the shortfall in the system could not be mended.
Suomen Kuvalehti added that the discovery of the possibility to [jam] the missiles' guidance systems had prompted the defence ministry to propose a 110-million-euro extra appropriation to speed up the procurement of a replacement missile system.
Jyri Häkämies (cons), the defence minister, told commercial broadcaster MTV3 that a number of other ministers backed the extra funding and that a decision would probably be made next week.
Estimates of the total cost of the new missile system range between 400 and 500 million euros.
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