The Eastern Military
District’s anti-aircraft gunners earlier learnt to operate the new system at
the Kapustin Yar training range in the southern Astrakhan Region, the press office
informed.
MOSCOW, December 6.
/TASS/. A new set of the advanced S-300V4 surface-to-air missile system arrived
for the anti-aircraft personnel of the Eastern Military District’s air defense
unit stationed in the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Russian Far East, the
District’s press office reported on Friday.
"This system has
arrived for service with the Eastern Military District’s air defense troops for
the first time," the press office said in a statement.
The Eastern Military
District’s anti-aircraft gunners earlier learnt to operate the new system at
the Kapustin Yar training range in the southern Astrakhan Region, the press
office informed.
The S-300V4 is an
advanced highly mobile air defense missile system designated to protect vital
military and administrative facilities and groupings of forces against strikes
by ballistic and aerodynamic air attack weapons. This is the fourth version of
the upgraded S-300V battlefield anti-aircraft missile system.
Source: ITAR-TASS
07-12-2019
