Northern Russian soldiers to receives Tor-M2DT missile system.

According to the Russian MoD, the troops operating in the Russian Far North and the Arctic region will receive the Tor-M2DT short-range anti-aircraft missile system in 2018. It was announced by Chief of Land Forces Air Defence Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov.

The Tor-M2DT was exhibited at MAKS 2017, Russia.

The TOR-M2DT is a Russian-made short-range air defense missile system using the TOR-M2 missile launcher station. The system is especially designed to be used for Arctic region. The TOR-M2 missile launcher station is able to engage to 48 processed targets and ten tracked targets. The missile can destroy air targets as aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, guided aerial missiles and bombs, unmanned air vehicles (UAV) flying at medium, low and extremely low altitudes in the heavy air and electronic countermeasures environment at a maximum range of 12 km at altitudes from 10 m to 1,000 m.

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