Newest antiaircraft missiles placed on combat duty in Moscow region

MOSCOW, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - A second regiment operating the newest
Russian antiaircraft missile system S-400 Triumph will be placed on
permanent combat alert in the Moscow region Sunday.
"Official functions dedicated to the transition of the officers and
men of Air Defense Regiment No. 210, which has the S-400 Triumph missiles
on its tables of equipment, to the mode of permanent combat alert will be
held near a monument to the defenders of Moscow at the Peremilovsky
Heights in Moscow region's Dmitrov district," Vladimir Drik, an official
spokesman for the Russian Air Force said.
A total of 64 officers and more than 30 men have taken a special
course of training to be able to do the maintenance and troubleshooting of
the new equipment.
The first regiment equipped with the S-400 system went on permanent
combat alert in the town of Elektrostal to the east of Moscow in 2007.
The Defense Ministry plans to re-equip all the air defense regiments
for operating the S-400 missile complexes by 2020.
The system was designed to incapacitate the electronic countermeasures
aircraft, radar surveillance and guidance planes, other types of aircraft,
tactical and medium-range ballistic missiles, hypersonic objects, and
other prospective air assault vehicles.
The S-400 Triumph system is also meant for destroying the aircraft
based on Stealth technologies, small-size cruise missiles and combat
blocks flying at a speed of up to 4.8 kilometers per second at distances
of up to 400 kilometers.
One S-400 Triumph is capable of replacing three air defense complexes
of the S-300 family.
It exceeds the S-300 by a factor of two in terms of target damage and
velocity and by a factor of five in terms of resistance to electronic
countermeasures.