Al-Manar News:
Russia will deploy its most advanced S-400 air defense systems to the annexed Crimea peninsula in August, a military official said Friday.
Russia is currently using its older S-300 systems on the peninsula it annexed from Ukraine in March 2014 in a move condemned by the West that led to the imposition of US and EU sanctions.
“In August 2016 the (S-400) systems are expected to be unloaded in Feodosia where they will be permanently located,” Yevgeny Oleinikov, deputy commander of the Russian army’s 18th surface-to-air missile regiment, told RIA Novosti state news agency, referring to an eastern Crimean town.
The S-400 “Triumph” systems are Russia’s most modern anti-aircraft and missile defense systems. They are being deployed in Syria, where Moscow is conducting a bombing campaign against the terrorist groups.
The system can track some 300 targets and shoot down around three dozen simultaneously over a range of several hundred kilometers.
Since Crimea’s annexation Russia has stepped up its military presence in the peninsula, which is home to its Black Sea fleet.
