International Business Times:
The Russian army has received this year’s second regiment of S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems ahead of schedule, the state-owned manufacturer of the antiaircraft weapon system announced Monday. The delivery of the first S-400 regimental set of 2016 was announced in early July.
According to Yan Novikov, the head of Almaz-Antey, which developed the S-400 missiles, the components were supplied to a base at the Kapustin Yar range — a Russian rocket launch and development site, about 666 miles south of Moscow — for the assembly, Russia’s Tass news agency reported.
Almaz-Antey is expected to deliver five regimens of the S-400 system in 2016 to the Russian army, which will have a total of 16 regimental sets of these missile systems in service by the end of this year.
The S-400 Triumph, a long-range antiaircraft missile system, went into service in 2007. It is capable of engaging targets at a distance of 400 km (248.5 miles) at an altitude of up to 30 km (18.6 miles). Designed to destroy aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, the S-400 missile system can also be used against ground objectives.
