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| First regiment of S-500 new air defense missile system will protect Moscow and center of Russia. | |||
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first regiment of state-of-the-art anti-aircraft missile system S-500
will protect Moscow and the center of Russia, commander of the air defense
and missile troops, Major-General Andrei Demin said. The development of
Russia's formidable S-500 air defense system will be completed in 2015,
and the system could be put in service with the Russian military as early
as in 2017. |
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 The S-500, a long-range air defense missile system, is expected to become the backbone of a unified aerospace defense system being formed in Russia. |
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"I am sure that after the development and tests, the first regimental group of S-500 will enter service for covering the center of Russia and Moscow," Demin told reporters after attending military drills on Ashuluk range ground. Earlier, it was reported that the drills with the participation of air defense missile systems S-300 and S-400 were held within the framework of the scheduled large-scale tactical exercises combining air and missile defense forces on Ashuluk range ground in the Astrakhan region. S-500 "Prometheus"
is a Russian anti-aircraft missile system, which was developed by JSC
Almaz-Antey as a new generation of anti-aircraft missile systems, in
which it was is supposed to apply the principle of separate solution
of tasks to destroy ballistic and aerodynamic targets. The prime goal
of the complex is to counter medium range ballistic missiles, hypersonic
cruise missiles, UAVs, hypersonic missiles, low-orbit satellites and
space weapons launched from hypersonic aircraft, as well as attack drones
and hypersonic orbital platforms. |
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