Russian 726th Army Air Defense Training Center receives first Tor-M2DT

December 4, 2018

Army Recognition:

The 726th Army Air Defense Training Center located in Yeysk (the Krasnodar Krai) in southern Russia has received the first batch shipment of the Tor-M2DT surface-to-air missile system (SAM), the Russian Defense Ministry said. “Under the state defense order the manufacturing plant has supplied a battalion of combat vehicles to the Russian Defense Ministry. At present, the teaching staff of the training center has got down to checking technical documents and full operational capacity of combat modules, life-sustaining systems and specialized equipment. Northern Fleet’s servicemen will use Tor-M2DT for training after all the acceptance procedures are over,” the ministry said.

Tor-M2DT is an Arctic variant of the Tor-M2 SAM missile system designed for anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense at the level of a battalion air wing. Tor-M2DT protects vital administrative facilities and the first echelons of land formations from anti-radar and cruise missiles; glide bombs, aircraft, helicopters and drones. The system functions in manual and fully automatic regimes. Tor-M2DT controls the designated air space itself and shoots down independently all the targets which have not been identified by the friend-or-foe system.

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