Moscow. 5th of December. INTERFAX-AVN - Bastion coastal missile systems have been deployed in the northern part of the Kuril Ridge on Paramushir Island, calculations have taken up duty, the Russian Defense Ministry reported."Coastal missile launchers of the Pacific Fleet will carry out a round-the-clock watch to monitor the adjacent water area and strait zones," the military department said on Monday.
They stated that the equipment, personnel and material resources were delivered to the island by large landing ships of the Primorsky Flotilla of heterogeneous forces of the Pacific Fleet.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that an autonomous military camp was deployed in Paramushir, in which all conditions for year-round service, accommodation, rest and nutrition of personnel were created.
"For the operation and maintenance of equipment, the equipment of technical posts has been installed, equipment and material storage facilities have been deployed, entrances to the starting positions have been equipped," the department said.
The Russian military has distributed video footage of the deployment of the Bastion complexes on Paramushir Island. The footage of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation shows the movement of combat vehicles on the island, the occupation of combat positions by complexes. The video also shows an autonomous military camp.
On December 2, 2021, the Pacific Fleet announced that the Bastion complexes had entered combat duty on the Kuril island of Matua.
The newspaper of the Pacific Fleet "Combat Watch" in the fall of 2016 reported that the new coastal anti-ship missile systems "Bal" and "Bastion" are located on the Kuril islands of Iturup and Kunashir.
Earlier, the Russian military reported on the creation of an airfield on the Kuril island of Matua, which accepts light military transport aircraft. In 2016, it was reported about plans to create a base point for Russian Navy ships on Matua.
Japan claims the four southern islands of the Kuril Ridge - Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai, referring to the Treatise on Trade and Borders of 1855. Moscow's position is that the Southern Kuriles became part of the USSR following the results of World War II and Russian sovereignty over them, which has an international legal form, is beyond doubt.
According to official data, the Bastion coastal missile system (NPO Mashinostroeniya, Tactical Missile Armament Corporation) has been developed in two versions - the mobile Bastion-P and the stationary Bastion-S. The complex is equipped with a supersonic homing anti-ship missile "Onyx". Bastion is designed to protect the seashore and defeat surface ships of various classes and types operating as part of amphibious formations, convoys, ship and aircraft carrier strike groups, as well as single ships and ground-based radio-contrast targets in conditions of intense fire and electronic countermeasures.
Bastion complexes are deployed in all fleets of the Russian Navy. The flight range of the Onyx missile of the Bastion DBK is up to 500 km.
