Russia to develop naval version of TOR-M2 air defense missile system for Russian Navy

February 11, 2021

Navy Recognition:

 

According to information published by the Russian press agency TASS on February 10, 2020, the Russian defense industry to develop a naval version of its Tor-M2 air defense missile system for the Russian Navy.

The Tor air defense missile system was created in late 1970s by the Moscow Electro-Mechanical Research Institute (NIEMI). It was accepted into service in the spring of 1986. Tor has to engage in air and missile defense at the battalion level. It can defend important administrative, economic, and military facilities, as well as first echelons of ground formations against antiradar and cruise missiles. The complex can control the airspace and automatically down all air targets unidentified by the friend-or-foe system.

The complex is armed with vertically launched antiaircraft guided missiles with a range of 12 km and altitudes of up to 10 km. The upgraded radar can detect stealth aircraft: jets, helicopters, cruise missiles, as well as precision munitions and air bombs.

The weapon has been numerously upgraded in its lifetime. The most advanced option is Tor-M2. It is serially supplied to the Defense Ministry. In 2019, it signed a contract worth 100 billion rubles for Tor-M2 delivery up to 2027…

 

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