They will join
coastal defense and land troops of the Pacific, Northern and Black Sea Fleets.
MOSCOW, August 26.
/TASS/. The Research and Production Association of Machine-Building (the town
of Reutov, the Moscow Region) will deliver three battalion sets of Bastion mobile
coastal defense missile systems this year, Company Chief Designer and CEO
Alexander Leonov said on Monday on the eve of the MAKS international aerospace
exhibition.
"At a meeting at
the Defense Ministry of Russia in April this year, which discussed the
fulfilment of the defense procurement plan in 2019, I reported to Defense
Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu that work was underway to manufacture and
deliver three sets of Bastion coastal defense missile systems," the chief
executive said.
The Russian defense
industry earlier told TASS that new Bastion coastal defense systems would join
coastal defense and land troops of the Pacific, Northern and Black Sea Fleets.
The Bastion coastal
defense system with standardized Yakhont (Oniks) supersonic homing anti-ship
cruise missiles went into service in the Russian troops in 2010. The Bastion is
designated to strike various types of surface ships operating as part of amphibious
assault formations, convoys, surface action and carrier strike groups, and also
sole ships and radar-contrast land targets under enemy intensive fire and
electronic counter-measures.
According to the data
of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Russian Navy
currently operates over 40 Bastion coastal defense systems. Specifically, they
are deployed in Crimea, on the Kotelny Island (the Novosibirsk Archipelago), in
the Kaliningrad Region, in Syria and on Kamchatka.
A Bastion battalion is
capable of defending a coastline stretching over 600km. The Bastion can fire
Oniks missiles to a range of 500km. The firing positions can be moved away from
the coastline by 200km.
Source: ITAR-TASS
26-08-2019
