According to him, despite the fact that the S-200 SAM was removed from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2013, missiles from it were stored in arsenals and were upgraded
MOSCOW, July 10. /tass/. The use of upgraded Soviet-made S-200 anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) missiles to strike ground targets is possible at a range of up to 600 km. This was reported to TASS on Monday by a high-ranking source in the field of aerospace defense.
"Theoretically, the use of upgraded S-200 SAM missiles to strike ground targets is possible at a range of up to 600 km," the agency interlocutor said.
According to him, despite the fact that the S-200 air defense systems were removed from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2013, missiles from it were stored in arsenals and were upgraded, "having received new "brains".
Earlier it was reported that the AFU tried to strike with S-200 missiles at targets on Russian territory, including the Crimean Bridge, but air defense defused them. On Monday, the Main Headquarters of the Russian Aerospace Forces gave a report on what happened over the weekend. The Chief of Staff, Colonel-General Viktor Afzalov, reported to the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, on the results of unsuccessful attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Gerasimov set before the chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff and officials of the command post of the united grouping of Russian forces the task of identifying storage sites and starting positions of the Ukrainian S-200 "and planning their preemptive fire defeat."
The S-200 is a Soviet-made long-range anti-aircraft missile system. It is designed to defend large areas from bombers and other strategic aircraft. The original version of the complex was developed in 1964, it has been in service since 1967. As the most powerful anti-aircraft weapon, the S-200 air defense systems were deployed only on the territory of the USSR for a long time, their deliveries abroad began in the 1980s, when the S-300P air defense system appeared.
