The announcement comes less than a month after a Russian il-20 aircraft carrying 14 Russian soldiers was shot down in the Latakia province of Syria.
The Kremlin blames Israel for the attack, and it holds Tehran responsible for creating a “dangerous situation” by performing unannounced attacks in Syria, resulting in a Soviet reconnaissance plane being accidentally shot down by Syrian Air Defence systems.
Vladimir Mikheyev, first deputy director of KRET, told state-run media that as a consequence of the alleged Israeli attack, the Kremlin was looking to reinforce its tracking systems in the skies from Syria to Europe.
Mr Mikheyev told Tass Russian News Agency: “Systems capable of combatting precision weapons — guided bombs and missiles that, perhaps, will be used by Israel, which has already stated that it will continue to target objects in the region — will be added to the conventional radar protection systems.
“In addition, systems and facilities will be put in place that will block all systems and means of controlling aviation and ship groupings.
“We will know not only that someone has entered the airspace in this region, but also that somewhere a plane is only operating on the runway, be it in Israel or Saudi Arabia or even in Europe.”
According to the deputy director, the system works by assigning a target number to the plane before presenting a series of options.
These include “radio-electronic reconnaissance, attenuation or electronic suppression or, even, if we see that the situation is critical, fire to effect”.
Last week’s attack in Latakia has aggravated existing tensions as it came only a day after the leaders of Russia and Turkey agreed to establish a demilitarised zone in the Syrian province of Idlib, the last major enclave held by rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Russia promised retaliation on Israel for “shooting down” the il-20 aircraft.
RIA news agency reported that the Russian ministry accused Israeli pilots of putting the Russian aircraft in the path of Syrian missiles.
The ministry said it held Israel responsible because, at the time of the incident, Israeli fighter jets were mounting air attacks on Syrian targets and had only given Moscow one minute’s warning – not enough time for the Russian plane to get to safety.
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov commented on the incident, saying: “As a result of the irresponsible actions of the Israeli military, 15 Russian service personnel perished.
“This absolutely does not correspond to the spirit of Russian-Israeli partnership.
“We reserve the right to take commensurate measures in response.”
Several countries are currently undertaking military operations in Syria, with varying forces launching strikes from the ground and the air.
The US, France and the UK launched scores of missiles at the heart of Syria’s chemical weapons programme in April in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack.