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New regiment of S-400 air defense system entered in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces 10501151.
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Defence & Security News - Russia
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Russia’s Aerospace Forces have received another regimental set of the S-400 Triumph air defence missile system that will cover Moscow and the Central Industrial District, the Russian Defence Ministry press service told reporters on Monday, January 5, 2016.
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"A new regimental set of the S-400 Triumph air defence missile system has arrived by train at the place of permanent deployment in the Moscow region from the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region where system’s live fire exercise was held," the ministry said.
"With the new system’s putting on combat duty the Aerospace Defence Forces’ antiaircraft defence formation will have four air defence missile regiments equipped with the state-of-the-art S-400 Triumph missile systems ensuring air defence of Moscow and the Central Industrial District," the press service said. Another two S-400 regimental sets were in 2015 transferred to the military districts’ antiaircraft defence formations, the Defence Ministry said. According to early December reports, the number of regiments equipped with the S-400 systems increased by 11 by late 2015. Five more sets of the air defence missile system are expected to be delivered in 2016, thus bringing the number of Russian army’s regiments with the Triumph system up to 16. The S-400 Triumph SA-21 is a long range surface-to-air missile systems produced by Almaz-Antey. The S-400 Trumph is intended to engage, ECM, radar-picket, director area, reconnaissance, strategic and tactical aircraft, tactical and theatre ballistic missiles, medium-range ballistic missiles and other current and future air attack assets at a maximum range of 400 km, and a altitude of up to 30 km. |
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