Joint CIS Air Defense System
Joint CIS Air Defense System is a unified system that comprises air defense units and elements of the former Soviet republics under control of the Coordination Committee on Air Defense of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the CIS. Currently there are 6 de facto members of JADS: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. 70% of all expenditures of the military budget of the Commonwealth of Independent States are directed to the improvement and development of this system.
Daryal early warning radar station in Pechora
Council of Ministers of Defense of the CIS
The Council of Ministers of Defense of the CIS is a working body in the Commonwealth of Independent States responsible for military policy of the CIS. It coordinates military cooperation of the CIS member states, and develops military and defense policy of the CIS.
The emblem of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the CIS.
The members of the council meeting in Moscow in 2017.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is the current chairman of the council.
General Shoigu during a presentation in Alexander Garden to members of the council during its 2017 anniversary session.