S-400 advanced missile systems arrive in Kamchatka - Russian Defense Ministry
MOSCOW. April 10 (Interfax-AVN) - More than 40 units of hardware from a regiment set of S-400 surface-to-air missile systems have been delivered to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky by sea, the Russian Defense Ministry has reported.
"In the near future, the new S-400 systems will enter into service and will replace S-300 missile systems guarding Russia's airspace in the north-east," the Eastern Military District said in a press release, seen by Interfax-AVN on Friday.
"Within a month, some 100 units of this special-purpose equipment will be delivered to Kamchatka and deployed at positions there," it said.
Two convoys of S-400 Triumf missile systems, designed and built by the Almaz-Antey company, will cover a distance of more than 160 kilometers and will be deployed at positions in the cities of Vilyuchinsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The systems have already been unloaded from the dry cargo ship Radik Bashirov in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and will soon be transported to the sites, according to the press release.
Armed Forces personnel serving in Russia's north-east were earlier trained to operate these systems at an air defense training center in the town of Gatchina outside of St. Petersburg. Afterwards, live-fire exercises were successfully conducted at the Defense Ministry's firing range.