Russian Defense Ministry receives another 2 regiment sets of S-400 missile systems
MOSCOW. Dec 26 (Interfax-AVN) - Two regiment sets of S-400 Triumf air defense missile systems have been transferred to the Russian Defense Ministry at the Kapustin Yar firing range in the Astrakhan region, a JSC Almaz-Antey spokesman told Interfax-AVN on Thursday.
"The Russian Armed Forces already have five S-400 Triumf regiments, and another two have been provided recently. It means that the 2013 contract with the Defense Ministry on serial deliveries of S-400 Triumf air defense missile systems have been fulfilled completely," he said.
The general director of the Almaz-Antey weapons producer, Vladislav Menshchikov, said earlier that the transfer of these air defense missile systems had proceeded in a new format over the past two years.
"Individual divisions were supplied previously, whereas today a whole air defense missile system is delivered in full," he said.
Almaz-Antey Design Bureau general director Vitaly Neskorodov, for his part, said that two or three regiment sets of S-400 missile systems were manufactured a year.
"The volume will keep growing next year," he said.
The aforementioned two S-400 systems were tested in a simulated combat environment at the Kapustin Yar firing range, the Almaz-Antey spokesman said.
"A route march several kilometers long was performed at the firing range, where the hardware's vibration resistance was tested during movement on different types of roads and at different speeds. After the march, the well-coordinated work of Almaz-Antey Design Bureau specialists and military units allowed the hardware to successfully pass the test of preparing for action and successfully hit simulated low-flying, high-speed and ballistic targets," he said. The S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile system, designed and produced by Almaz-Antey, is able to reliably and effectively protect crucial political, administrative, economic and military sites from air strikes using strategic, cruise, tactical or tactical ballistic missiles, as well as medium-range ballistic missiles amid combat and electronic counter-measures.
The S-400 is currently armed with missiles that can intercept aerodynamic targets within a range of 250 kilometers and non-strategic ballistic missiles within 60 kilometers