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Arctic version of the Pantsir-SA air defense systems to be fielded at the end of this year 52308169.


| 2016
Defence & Security News - Russia
 
Arctic version of the Pantsir-SA air defense systems to be fielded at the end of this year
The cutting-edge Pantsir-SA air defense missile/gun system tailored to the Arctic and a new variant of the baseline Pantsir shall be fielded with the Russian Armed Forces soon, Lieutenant General Victor Gumyonny, commander, Air and Missile Defense Force/deputy commander-in-chief, Russian Aerospace Force (RusAF), has told the Russian News Service radio station in an interview.
     
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The Pantsir air defense system (pictured here during a military parade) will be fielded in its arctic version at the end of 2016 (Photo Vitaly Kuzmin)
     
"This year, the development work will have been completed and the advanced Pantsyr-SA air defense missile/gun system designed for the arctic environment will have started fielding with the RusAF and [Russian Navy’s] Northern Fleet," he said.

Now, the Pantsir-S and Pantsir-S2 systems are entering service, according to Gumyonny. "We are finalizing the development, and the latest short-range air defense missile/gun system, the Pantsir-SM, will enter our inventory soon," he said.
     
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