Joint CIS Air Defense System is a unified system that comprises air defense units and elements of the former Soviet republics under control of AA Defense Coordinating Committee of the CIS. Currently there are de-facto 6 members of JADS: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. It was established by 1995 Almaty agreement. This agreement was also signed by Georgia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, however Georgia and Turkmenistan ceased their membership in 1997, while Ukraine and Uzbekistan are maintaining cooperation with Russia on bilateral basis.

General aims of Joint AD System are the following:
Protection of air boundaries of the CIS member states;
Joint control of the CIS airspace;
Monitoring of aerospace posture;
Air/missile strike early warning and coordinated repsponse to it.

Wonder if this will involve sharing border patrol duties?

The Aerospace Defence force in Russia has the task of monitoring and policing the airspace above Russia from the ground up into orbit... I wonder if they will consider cooperation with neighbour states, or go further and actually integrate them.

GarryB wrote:Wonder if this will involve sharing border patrol duties?

Dunno, but it's been around for a while. I imagine that this was not very complicated to set up, given that they all used to be part of the same IADS in the first place and still use Soviet/Russian/etc. radars and weapon systems.

Russia, Central Asian States to Hold Air Defense Drills

Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan will conduct joint command-and-staff air defense drills on October 5-16, the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

The Chistoye Nebo (Clear Sky) 2012 exercise will be held in Kyrgyz, Tajik and Kazakh airspace and involve the interception of cruise missiles.

Russia will be represented by a group of experts from Air Force staff and MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors and an A-50 Mainstay AWACS plane deployed at the Kant airbase in Kyrgyzstan.

Kazakhstan’s three airbases will host the active phase of the drills. The former Soviet republic will also deploy five air defense brigades and command staff.

In line with the concept of the exercises, Kyrgyzstan will play the role of a ‘designated adversary’ with its L-39 Albatros combat trainers and Su-25 Frogfoot ground attack aircraft.

Tajikistan will be represented by Air Force command staff.

The exercises will be held as part of military cooperation among countries-members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and emphasize the air defense of the bloc from the southern direction.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20120913/175938315.html

In line with the concept of the exercises, Kyrgyzstan will play the role of a ‘designated adversary’ with its L-39 Albatros combat trainers and Su-25 Frogfoot ground attack aircraft.

Awesome... they might get some tips from exRNZAF Skyhawk pilots... most of them spent their day pretending to be low flying subsonic anti ship missiles... wouldn't be that much of a stretch to pretend to be cruise missiles...