Moscow. January 4. INTERFAX-AVN-The S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system (ZRS) will go on combat duty in the Samara region at the end of January, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) of the Russian Federation reported.
"The new regimental kit has already arrived in the Samara region and will take up combat duty at the end of January," the press service quoted Oleg Nikanorov, commander of the Air Defense Division of the 14th Air Force and Air Defense Army, as saying.
According to the Central Military District headquarters, the anti-aircraft missile regiment adopted the S-400 in November 2020 at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan Region.
"In early December, the S-400 Triumph crews conducted initial live firing, during which they found a Kaban target missile simulating an operational-tactical missile, worked out tracking, and at an altitude of more than 15 km, the target was successfully destroyed," Nikanorov said.
The Air Defense Division of the Central Military District with its headquarters in Samara has the largest coverage of the air border among all the air defense units of the Russian Armed Forces. Its units are deployed in more than 10 regions of the Volga region and the Urals. The division is armed with S-400 Triumph and S-300 air defense systems, Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun systems, Nebo-M and Nebo-U radar stations, Kasta-22, Terek, and Desna, the press service added.
The S-400 Triumph air defense system (developed and manufactured by Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region) is designed to defeat strategic and tactical aircraft, ballistic missiles, hypersonic targets and other means of air attack in conditions of electronic and other types of counteraction. The system is capable of hitting aerodynamic targets at a range of up to 400 km, as well as at a range of up to 60 km - ballistic targets flying at speeds of up to 4.8 km/s at altitudes from several meters to several tens of kilometers.
