This week the Russian military employed the S-400 “Trimuf” surface-to-air missile system in a live-fire exercise, during drills in the south Astrakhan Region, involving the Central Military District’s air defense division. The drills involved more than 450 Russian military personnel and some two hundred pieces of military hardware.

The combat teams also passed theory tests in technical, tactical, and missile firing measures, while the live-fire exercise was conducted as part of the Central Military District’s large-scale air defense drills that involved more than ten thousand troops in total.

“As part of the practice stage with a live-fire exercise, the teams of S-400 ‘Triumf’ systems and Pantsyr-S1 anti-aircraft missile/gun launchers repelled a notional enemy’s simulated massive missile and air strike by launching missiles,” the Central Military District’s press office told Tass on Tuesday. “As a result, all the targets designated for their destruction were struck in accordance with the required procedures”…

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