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Russia is reforming its forces responsible for protecting against air attacks.
Speed of movement
Defense Minister Sergei Schweigau revealed the aim of reforming the air defense forces when he called in recent contacts with commanders of the armed forces to create a new rapid-moving missile squadron within the air defense forces.
The Soviet air defense forces were not able to move quickly because of the limited capabilities of the S-75, S-125 and S-200 air defense systems available to move from one location to another, which required Deploying a full regiment of interceptor missiles around each important facility, and requesting a significant increase in the numerical size of the air defense forces.
The need for all this has disappeared after the advent of the S-300 systems, which are capable of moving quickly away from where they are located by tens and hundreds of kilometers. The S-300 is ready to repel the air attack within minutes of its arrival at a specific location.
It should be noted that there are very important installations that can not be stripped of protection even for some time. Therefore, a special model of the S-300 system has been found to protect such installations continuously.
It is noteworthy that the financial crisis that faced Russia in the nineties of the last century stopped the purchase of air defense forces of new weapons, and imposed the solution of the units armed with the old systems "S-75" and "S-125" and "S-200" S-300 is enough to arm the units that guard important strategic installations.
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.. Sergey Pivovarov
"S-300" (Favorit) – Russia's long-range anti-aircraft missile systems
The mission of "Sochi"
In Russia in 2013, a distinguished regiment of anti-aircraft missiles was formed. The 1721 regiment was created to protect the Sochi stadiums. It was therefore armed with appropriate weapons that could be transferred to a specific facility on a rapid basis, namely the Panzer missile artillery systems and the Bock anti-aircraft missile systems. The Pantseer and Bock systems were effective and fast-moving support for the S-300 and S-400 long-range air defense systems, which also had the task of protecting the Sochi sky from possible terrorist attacks. The main task of the Pantseer and Facebook systems was to repel terrorist attacks by drones, light aircraft and hijacked helicopters.
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.. Evgeniy Bijatov
The B-M2A anti-air missile system
Focus on "Pantsir"
Most likely, the formation of the anti-aircraft missile battalion, which the Russian defense minister stressed the need to establish it will be taking into account the experience of the 1721 regiment, which continues its mission in the city of Sochi, in mind, as well as the experience of the Syrian Arab Army in repelling the missile and air attacks launched by US and Israeli forces.
The main function of the new regiment – most likely – will be to defend certain installations at one place or another against drones and missiles, and to protect them from attacks similar to the US attack on Syria's air cap base in April 2017.
Such a task could succeed in having Panthers systems that can access remote installations whose protection needs to be secured as quickly as possible. For example, a large number of Tomahawk missiles that attacked the barbed-wire base could have been destroyed if they had three or four Pantseer systems, according to a Russian newspaper specializing in military manufacturing.
The Bantseer systems are successful in dealing with other means of air attack as well, and can repel the targeted aerial bomb attack. The Syrian Ministry of Defense has published photographs of the wreckage of Israeli bombs directed by the Pantzer systems.
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Photo / Russian Defense Ministry
Air defense media in the Russian army
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