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Russia to Protect South Borders With S-400 Air Defense Systems
The air defense units of Russia’s Southern Military District will be rearmed with advanced S-400 Triumf air defense systems by the end of 2012, a spokesman for the district said on Monday. The Southern Military District was created in October 2010. It comprises the republics of Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Chechnya, [...]
Warships, Fighter Jets, S-400 to ‘Protect Russia APEC Summit’
Warships, warplanes as well as S-400 missile defense systems will be deployed to protect the leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum during a summit in Russia’s Far East next month, an official said on Friday. The summit will be held in the port city of Vladivostok on September 2-9. “The security of the [...]
Russia Puts 4th S-400 Air Defense Regiment on Combat Duty
The fourth regiment armed with S-400 Triumf air defense systems will be officially put on combat duty in Russia’s Far East on Thursday, a spokesman for the Eastern Military District said on Wednesday. “The official ceremony will be held on August 16,” the official said. The regiment, which is deployed near the port city of [...]
Russian Aerospace Forces to Carry Out First S-400 Firings
Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces will carry out their first test-firings of the new S-400 air defense missile system from August 10-16 at the Ashuluk firing range in Astrakhan Region, Defense Ministry spokesman Lt.Col. Dmitry Zenin said on Saturday. “The first tactical exercises will take place at the Ashuluk range from August 10-16 involving the force’s [...]
Russia, Kazakhstan to Combine Air Defense
Russia hopes to complete talks soon with Kazakhstan on establishing a joint air defense network by 2013, Deputy Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Pavel Kurachenko said on Wednesday. “We will discuss the relevant agreement with our Kazakh colleagues at a session of CIS Air Defense Coordinating Committee which opened in Cholpon-ata [on Wednesday],” Kurachenko said, [...]
S-400 Missiles Deployed in Russia’s Baltic Fleet
Russia has deployed a battalion of S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems at a Baltic Fleet base in the exclave of Kaliningrad, the Izvestia daily reported on Monday. This is the third base to deploy an S-400 battalion. The other two are located in the Moscow region. Air Force chief of staff Major General Viktor [...]
S-400 Missiles Deployed in Western Russia
New S-400 Triumf air defense systems have been delivered to Russia’s Western Military District and will be put on alert duty in a month, district commander Arkady Bakhin said on Tuesday. He did not say exactly where the missiles will be stationed. Air Force Commander Alexander Zelin previously said S-400 systems would be deployed near [...]
Delivery of S-500 Air Defense System Delayed Until 2017
Russia’s Almaz-Antey concern will finish the development of the advanced S-500 air defense system by 2017, two years later than the deadline announced earlier, the company’s General Director Vitaly Neskorodov said. 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. [...]
Syria may buy more Russian air defense systems
Syria has shown interest in buying a whole range of advanced Russian air defense systems, a source in the Russian defense industry told RIA Novosti on Monday. A group of Syrian observers is attending live firing drills during Combat Commonwealth air defense exercises carried out by CIS countries at the Ashuluk firing range in the [...]
