The first Artic air
defense systems Tor will be delivered to the Northern Fleet next week, a source
says.
MOSCOW, November 15.
/TASS/. The first Artic air defense systems Tor will be delivered to the
Northern Fleet next week, a source in the military-industrial complex told
TASS.
"The first
battalion of Arctic air defense systems Tor-M2DT will be handed over to the
Northern Fleet on November 22," the source said.
Earlier, the chief of
the Russian Armed Forces’ field air defense system, Lieutenant-General
Alexander Leonov, said that the Tor systems were to be handed over to the
Northern Fleet in a ceremony on the premises of the 726th air defense training
center in Yeisk, the Krasnodar Region, in November.
Tor-M2DT is the
Arctic configuration of Tor-M2, installed on the tracked articulated chassis
DT-30M, boasting unique cross-country parameters and the ability to negotiate
ditches and water obstacles and stay operational at air temperatures as low as
50 degrees below freezing. They hit the target within seconds after
identification.
Source: ITAR-TASS
15-11-2018
