Russia Develops Own THAAD-like, GMD-like Missile Defense Systems

[Hindustani78]

https://sputniknews.com/military/201612191048727903-buk-m2-russia/
11:48 19.12.2016(updated 11:58 19.12.2016)

The new formation comprises three divisions armed with advanced Buk-M2 missile systems and staffed by both conscripts and contract troops.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A new Buk-M2 missile system brigade has entered combat duty in Russia's Krasnodar Territory, the Russian Defense Ministry's Southern Military Command said Monday. "The new missile brigade received a battle flag and entered combat duty in the Southern Military Command in Krasnodar Territory," the command's press service said.

The new formation comprises three divisions armed with advanced Buk-M2 missile systems and staffed by both conscripts and contract troops, the southern command added.

The Buk surface-to-air missile system is capable of hitting targets within a range of 35 kilometers (115,000 feet) and an altitude of up to 25 kilometers (82,000 feet), depending on the modification. The new Buks are able to engage simultaneously up to 36 targets.

Krasukha-4 ground-based electronic warfare system
© Donat Sorokin/TASS
http://tass.com/defense/920476
MOSCOW, December 19 /TASS/. Russia’s Western Military District has received about 10 state-of-the-art electronic warfare systems, including the Krasukha-4 broadband multifunctional jamming stations, Igor Migunov, the District’s press service chief, told journalists on Monday.

"About 10 brand-new electronic warfare systems have put into service with the military units of the Western Military District as part of the 2016 state defense order. They include several Krasukha-4 mobile VHF/UHF jammers," Migunov went on to say.

According to him, experts on electronic warfare systems are going to test the new systems during field exercises in January.

The Krasukha-4 electronic warfare system is intended for countering an adversary’s radars of the strike and reconnaissance, unmanned aircraft and drones. The capacities of a broadband interference station make it possible to effectively combat against all modern radar stations, which are used on modern aircraft.

 

[Hindustani78]

Russia to launch ten missile attack warning satellites by 2020
Military & Defense
December 20, 14:19 UTC+3
Under the government program for armaments extending till 2020 the missile attack warning system is to be completely upgraded

http://tass.com/defense/920880

MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. Russia’s Aerospace Force plans to commission about ten new satellites and build five radars to upgrade the missile attack warning system by 2020, the Aerospace Force’s first deputy commander, Pavel Kurachenko, said on Tuesday.

"Within the framework of efforts to upgrade the missile attack warning system five high factory readiness radars Voronezh are to be built and some ten satellites of the integrated space system of missile launch identification and combat control will be put in orbit," he said.

Under the government program for armaments extending till 2020 the missile attack warning system is to be completely upgraded. The outgoing Dnepr and Daryal radars will be replaced by high factory readiness stations Voronezh.

As the deputy commander of Russia’s Aerospace Force for testing, Andrey Ivashin, said late last November, Voronezh radars are currently on duty in the Leningrad, Kaliningrad and Irkutsk regions and also in the Krasnodar Territory. More radars in the Krasnoyarsk and Altai territories and the Orenburg Region are almost through government certification tests. By the end of 2019 Voronezh radars will emerge near Murmansk and Vorkuta.

Integration of all air and space defense systems
Russia’s western region will be the first to see the integration of all air and space defense systems into one whole, which is to happen by the year 2021, the first deputy chief of Russia’s Aerospace Force:

"By 2021 the research and development project codenamed Selection is to bring about a pilot unit incorporating all means and facilities capable of coping with aerospace defense tasks - current and future ones - within the boundaries of the western region."

The chief of Russia’s general staff, Valery Gerasimov, disclosed plans for pooling the air and space resources into an integral aerospace system by 2030.

 

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http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-conducted-test-anti-satellite-weapon-2016-12

Russia successfully flight tested a new missile capable of knocking out strategic U.S. communications and navigation satellites, according to Pentagon officials.

The test of the PL-19 Nudol missile was carried out Dec. 16 from a base in central Russia, and was monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies.

It was the fifth test of the Nudol missile and the third successful flight of a system Moscow has claimed is for use against enemy missiles, said officials familiar with the reports of the launch.


The exact location of the flight test was not disclosed. Earlier tests of the missile took place from a facility near Plesetsk, located 500 miles north of Moscow.

It could not be learned if the Nudol was sent into space or fired in a sub-orbital trajectory.

Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza declined to comment. “We generally don’t comment on other countries’ capabilities,” she said.

Earlier tests took place May 24 and Nov. 18, 2015. Both tests were first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

The high rate of testing is an indication the program is a military priority and is progressing toward deployment.

The new anti-satellite missile is among several new strategic weapons systems being developed by the Russian military.

The Nudol is viewed by the Pentagon as a so-called “direct ascent” anti-satellite missile. Russia, however, has sought to mask the missile’s anti-satellite capabilities by claiming the missile is for defense against incoming ballistic missiles.

The Pentagon is worried about the development of anti-satellite weapons by both Russia and China.

Gen. John Hyten, the commander of Air Force Space Command who was recently promoted to lead Strategic Command, has stated that Russia and China are building space warfare systems that are worrying. “They are developing capabilities that concern us,” Hyten has said.

In March, Air Force Lt. Gen. David J. Buck, commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space, revealed during House testimony that the Russian military is developing weapons with “counter-space capabilities.”

“Russia views U.S. dependency on space as an exploitable vulnerability, and they are taking deliberate actions to strengthen their counter-space capabilities,” Buck said.

Mark Schneider, a former Pentagon strategic arms policymaker, said the current asymmetry between the United States and other nations in anti-satellite capabilities “is of enormous significance.”

“Potentially, it could result in our defeat in a high intensity conflict,” Schneider said. “The complete loss of the GPS network, or its serious degradation, would eliminate the effectiveness of all existing long-range conventional strike cruise missiles and would degrade the functioning of many of our precision guided weapons.”

Anti-satellite missiles also could be used to knock out communications satellites. “We have begun to take some steps to reduce our reliance on GPS but this will not be near term,” Schneider said.

Michaela Dodge, a defense analyst at the Heritage Foundation, said the Russian test highlights the growing threat to space from new weapons.

“The test demonstrates the need for the United States to treat space as an increasingly contested environment where access might not be guaranteed as it has been in the past,” she said.

“It demonstrates the need to exercise scenarios in which U.S. military might not have a complete access to its complete utilization,” Dodge added. “The test also illustrates the need to protect and diversify U.S. space infrastructure.”

U.S. intelligence agencies have estimated that U.S. military operations could be severely disrupted with only two dozen or so anti-satellite attacks.

Satellites are used for precision navigation, targeting, and communications and intelligence gathering.

The Pentagon is very dependent on satellites for long-range warfare operations, an American military specialty.

Both Russia and China have recognized the strategic vulnerability of U.S. dependency on satellites. Anti-satellite missiles are regarded as important asymmetric warfare weapons.

Both China and Russia are developing lasers and other directed-energy weapons that can blind or disrupt satellites. Small satellites capable of maneuvering in space and grabbing and crushing satellites also are being developed.

Russian generals have mentioned their forces fielding anti-satellite capabilities in public statements, but with few details. For example, Russian Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko, former commander of space forces, has said the S-500 anti-missile system is capable of hitting “low-orbit satellites and space weapons.”

In May, Vadim Kozyulin, a professor at the Academy of Military Sciences, was quoted as saying that discussion of “space kamikazes” suggests Moscow is preparing for a conflict in space with the United States.

The TASS news agency reported that the A-60, a variation of the IL-76 transport aircraft, has a laser anti-satellite capability.

In October, TASS reported that the Nudol is called the A-235 and is being developed to replace the current nuclear-tipped missile defense system ringing Moscow.

Missile defense interceptors share characteristics with space-faring satellite killers. Both travel at high rates of speed and require precision targeting and guidance.

The United States has no anti-satellite weapons. However, a Navy SM-3 anti-missile interceptor was modified to shoot down a de-orbiting intelligence satellite in 2008, indicating U.S. missile defenses could be used to target foreign satellites.

The Defense Intelligence Agency stated in a report to Congress last year that Russia leaders “openly assert that the Russian armed forces have anti-satellite weapons and conduct anti-satellite research.”

China conducted a flight test of its new anti-satellite missile in early December. Preparations for the test were first reported by the Free Beacon.


The missile was identified as a DN-3 direct ascent missile. That system, like the Russian Nudol, is being developed under cover as a missile-defense weapon.

China’s Defense Ministry said the Free Beacon report of test preparations for the DN-3 was “groundless.”

Read the original article on The Washington Free Beacon. Copyright 2016. Follow The Washington Free Beacon on Twitter.

 

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December 22, 2016


18:27
Two missile units re-armed with Iskander-M missile systems in 2016 - Russian Defense Ministry

18:25
Four S-400 air defense regiments join Russian Aerospace Forces - Defense Minister Shoigu (Part 2)

18:21
Five modernized strategic aircraft to join Russian armed forces in 2017 - Defense Minister Shoigu (Part 2)

http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?y=2016&m=12&d=22&pg=3&id=723991
MOSCOW. Dec 22 (Interfax) - One of the most important tasks of maintaining national security is to strengthen the combat potential of Russia's strategic nuclear forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

"In the coming year, the Defense Ministry will have to concentrate on tackling the following key tasks. First, [it is necessary to] ensure the balanced development of all services and branches of the armed forces, continue exploring high-precision weapons, modern means of communication, intelligence, control and radio-electronic warfare," Putin said at an expanded meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry board on Thursday.

It is necessary to bolster the Strategic Nuclear Forces' combat potential "primarily by including in them missile systems able to reliably overpower existing and prospective missile defense systems," he said.

The strategic nuclear forces should also be taken to a qualitatively new level to be able to neutralize any military threats to Russia, the president said.

Secondly, it is important to maintain the pace of re-arming the army and the navy, to monitor efficiently the implementation of the state armament program and government defense contracts, Putin said.

By 2021 "the proportion of modern weapons and equipment in the troops should reach the set target of at least 70%," the president said.

15:43
Russian military pilots set record for flight hours - Aerospace Force chief

15:42
Russian Black Sea Fleet to receive 3 new submarines, 2 frigates in 2017 - commander

15:40
Russian Aerospace Forces need 35 light transport planes - program director

15:37
Shoigu: over 90% missile systems in Russia are in state of combat readiness (Part 2)

15:28
Russian Armed Forces ensured 14% increase in combat capabilities in 2016 - Shoigu (Part 2)

15:21
Around 15 ships protecting Russian national interests in Mediterranean - Shoigu

14:21
Russian Armed Forces have 2,000 drones at their disposal - Shoigu (Part 2)

14:16
Putin meets with commanders of Russian military districts

14:15
Russian armed forces' staffing level reaches 93%, all sergeants professional - Defense Minister Shoigu

https://sputniknews.com/military/201612221048871795-yars-russia-missile-defense/

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated that four new regiments of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, were put on combat duty in 2016 said Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Four new regiments of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, armed with Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems, were put on combat duty in 2016, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday. "Four new regiments, armed with mobile Yars missile systems, were put on combat readiness," Shoigu said.


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https://sputniknews.com/military/201612221048872548-russia-forces-shoigu-aircraft/

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian Aerospace Forces have received 139 advanced aircraft, four missile systems regiments were reequipped with S-400 systems, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday.

"The aerospace forces have received 139 advanced aircraft, four more advanced missile regiments have been reequipped with S-400 Triumf missile systems," Shoigu said at a defense ministry meeting.

He added that the Russian Defense Ministry fell short of receiving 49 units of weaponry as part of the state procurement program in 2016. "The issue of the short-delivered weapons and equipment is on special control of the defense ministry. This year, 49 units of weaponry were not delivered," Shoigu said at a Defense Ministry meeting. H

However, advanced weaponry should account for more than 60 percent of all Russian armed forces' weapons in 2017, Shoigu said. "[In is necessary] to ensure the timely deployment and strict accomplishment of state defense order tasks in 2017, for the armed forces' equipment with modern weapons to reach over 60 percent [of all weapons],"

Shoigu said at an expanded ministry board meeting. He highlighted that the level of the military equipment serviceability increased in 2016, reaching 94 percent.

"As a result of the completing state contract, the supplies of advanced weapons and equipment to the troops increased by 5 percent," Shoigu said, adding that in 2016 Russian army's permanent readiness units were 58.3-percent equipped with modern weapons. The minister added that four anti-aircraft missile regiments would be reequipped with S-400 systems in 2017.

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https://sputniknews.com/military/201612221048873540-drone-flights-intensity/

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — He also said that the total number of drones in service with the Russian Defense Ministry now amounts to 2,000.

"The intensity of drone flights has increased 1.5 times, compared to the previous year," Shoigu said. He added that the armed forces received 105 complexes, comprising 260 drones, in 2016, while 36 drone aircraft military units were formed. "There are more than 600 complexes with 2,000 drones in service [of Russian Defense Ministry]," Shoigu said.

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[razgriz19]

Even india is ahead of russia in this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ballistic_Missile_Defence_Programme;)

Yeah that's because you guys need a head start. They will deploy that SAM while you guys would be still testing prototypes.
Even that's too optimistic actually...

That's not me saying, that's your record saying it.

 

[Hindustani78]

https://sputniknews.com/military/201612231048923132-russia-hypersonic-weapons/
In March, the Russian Defense Industry began tests of the new Tsirkon 3M22 hypersonic missile, which is designed to be carried by advanced and modernized warships and submarines. Production of the missile is expected to be launched in 2017. The Admiral Nakhimov and the Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered missile cruisers will be the first to receive the new weapons.

On October 25, Russia successfully tested a hypersonic warhead for advanced intercontinental missiles. The hypersonic vehicle (known under the development codename Izdelie 4202) was launched from a range in the Orenburg Region and reached to the Kura range in Kamchatka.

It is worth to note that the electronic systems, onboard electronic equipment and control system of Izdelie 4202 were developed and manufactured in Russia, as part of a large-scale import substitution industrial plan.

Earlier, Boris Obnosov, director of Tactical Missiles Corporation, said that Russia is developing hypersonic flying vehicles. At the same time, Commander of the Russian Missile and Artillery Forces Lt. Gen. Mikhail Matveevsky said Russia is developing a new advanced type of warheads. On October 6, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russia used newest Kh-101 hypersonic missiles with a range of up to 4,500 km during its military operation in Syria.

A vehicle can be described hypersonic if it can reach speeds of over 4,500 kmh. A hypersonic vehicle cannot be propelled with a regular jet engine. It requires the use of a ramjet engine with supersonic combustion. Russia developed a brand-new type of fuel, the Detsilin-M, with a 20 percent increase in energy capacity.

After a hypersonic vehicle accelerates to the designated speed it begins maneuverable flight in the atmosphere in high-temperature conditions. At hypersonic speeds, a vehicle is enveloped in a plasma cloud which can burn down the antennas, sensors and control devices. In such conditions, the most advanced materials and technologies are required to enable operation of the control and target-acquiring systems of the vehicle.

A hypersonic warhead travels at speeds of nearly Mach 15 (seven km per second) at an altitude of 100 km. Before entering the dense atmosphere it performs a complicated maneuver to penetrate the enemy missile defense. Hypersonic weapons can overcome any of the existing types of missile defense. Specialists expect that hypersonic missile systems will maintain military and strategic parity in the coming decades.

For example, Russia’s Sarmat heavy missile is expected to carry hypersonic missiles. Drop tests of the Sarmat missile will begin in 2017. Russia is currently developing aggression preventing weapons in all environments, including space. On October 28, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that despite serious financial difficulties Russia will continue the modernization of its armed forces.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin set a goal to modernize 79 percent of the Russian military by 2020. West Closely Watching the Situation Citing a study by the United States Armed Force, the Washington Free Beacon reported that Washington is "falling behind Russia and China in the technology race" to develop both defensive and offensive hypersonic weapons.

"The People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation are already flight-testing high-speed maneuvering weapons (HSMWs) that may endanger both forward deployed US forces and even the continental United States itself. These weapons appear to operate in regimes of speed and altitude, with maneuverability that could frustrate existing missile defense constructs and weapon capabilities," an executive summary of the report

"Hypersonic nuclear missiles are the latest achievement by the defense industry. A hypersonic missile would be a tough challenge even for the US missile system, one of the most advanced in the world," the article read.

American analytical outlet The National Interest noted: "Once it is fielded, the Russian hypersonic glide weapons could be fielded on the Sarmat heavy ICBM or the smaller road-mobile Topol-M ICBM." According to Spanish online publication El Confidencial, Russia is finishing development of the newest RS-28 Sarmat missile, which is aimed to replace the current R-36 Voevoda (NATO reporting name Satan).

"The missile can reach speeds of up to 7,000 kmh and can hit targets on the territory of the US. The missile has new powerful engines and a lighter design," the article read.

According to the publication, the new missile has a weight of over 100 tons and a payload of 10 tons. This can be a 50-megaton warhead or 10-15 nuclear warheads capable of performing hypersonic maneuvers. The National Interest also touched upon the Russian combat aviation. "The Russians are not just aiming to equip the new fighter with hypersonic weapons; Moscow is designing its sixth-generation airframe to be capable of hypersonic speeds," Dave Majumdar, defense editor of the NI, wrote.

 

[Hindustani78]

December 27, 7:32 UTC+3
In mid-December, anti-aircraft gunners have successfully completed the program of firing exercises

http://tass.com/defense/922647

YEKATERINBURG, December 27. /TASS/. A set of cutting-edge air defense system Pantsir-S1 has arrived in Novosibirsk, Yaroslav Roschupkin, aide to the commander of Central Military District (CMD) forces, told reporters on Tuesday.

"Cutting-edge air defense systems Pantsir-S1 have arrived in Novosibirsk, where they will be put on combat duty to protect important military and industrial facilities in the sphere of responsibility of the Central Military District. Pantsir-S1 will strengthen the air defense system of West Siberia," Roschupkin said.

In mid-December, anti-aircraft gunners have successfully completed the program of firing exercises at the Ashuluk training range in the Astrakhan Region. "They marched for around 4,000 kilometers along the railway," he noted.

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[Hindustani78]

https://sputniknews.com/military/201701011049181845-russia-robot-advanced-technology/
Flying Bomb Drel

In September, Russia unveiled a flying bomb dubbed Drel (Drill) which is second to none in the world. "It has no engine. When dropped, it acquires its target and zooms in with the help of the GLONASS global positioning system.

The cluster charge opens up at an altitude of 250 meters," Director General of JSC SPA Bazalt Vladimir Porhachev detailed. The Drill has 15 self-guided warheads and is said to have an operational range of 30 kilometers (more than 18.6 miles). The glide aviation bomb has a length of 3.1 meters and diameter of 0.45 meters.


"UAV charmer" Shipovnik

The Shipovnik (Rosehip) electronic warfare system is capable of assuming control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in less than a second, while simultaneously calculating the location of the drone's previous operator to the accuracy of one meter. Rossiyskaya Gazeta referred to the Shipovnik as a "UAV charmer."

The complex has also been designed to suppress cellular and satellite communications within a radius of 10 kilometers (more than 6.2 miles).


Newest EW System

In November, Radio-Electronic Technologies Concern (KRET) announced that Russia had developed a system designed to network and control Murmansk-BN long-range jammers capable of disrupting radio communications of US and NATO militaries at a range exceeding 1,864 miles.

The new system "is meant to disrupt the information environment and prevent an adversary from receiving and sending command and goal-oriented information," the adviser of KRET's first deputy general director Vladimir Mikheev said. The unnamed system is expected to be a part of the national strategic electronic warfare (EW) system, which is currently being developed in Russia.

 

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https://sputniknews.com/russia/201701081049373614-russia-missiles-digital/

Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) will completely switch to digital data transmission technologies by 2020, the Defense Ministry press service said in a statement.

According to the MoD press service, missile launch centers, down to the division level, as well as the SMF’s Communications Center, training facilities and the Peter the Great Military Academy in Moscow and its branch in Serpukhov, are now all equipped with digital telecommunications equipment.

Over the past four years new digital communications systems for SMF divisions have been delivered to command points across the country and satellite communications centers have been modernized along with short and ultra-shortwave up radio stations and service and repair centers. “If the current pace of modernization is maintained, by 2020 the Russian Strategic Missile Forces will be 100-percent equipped with digital data transmission technologies,” the statement said.

https://sputniknews.com/russia/201701081049373208-russia-missile-warning/

In 2017 Russia will have a missile attack warning system covering its entire territory with advanced Voronezh radars capable of detecting enemy missile launches up to 6,000 kilometers away.

In December 2016, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that three new Voronezh-class radar stations had successfully been tested in Orsk, Barnaul and Yeniseisk and would be placed on active duty in 2017.

The new elements of the country’s missile warning system will give Russia its first ever radar coverage of the entire length of its borders.

Russia lost its unified missile warning system following the 1991 Soviet breakup with most of the radar installations in the former Soviet republics either decommissioned or simply destroyed. The new Voronezh radars are able to spot targets up to 6,000 kilometers away and at altitudes of up to 8,000 kilometers.

Each of the Voronezh radars now being built in Armavir, southern Russia, in Kaliningrad and Leningrad Regions, in Siberia and the Far North can simultaneously track up to 500 targets.

The one in Orsk is capable of registering missile launches in the Middle East, southern Europe, the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. Plans are also apace to have one such radar in Sevastopol, Crimea, to replace an old and malfunctioning one built decades ago.

The addition of many new Voronezh radars will enable simultaneous tracking of a single ballistic missile by several radars. This will make it possible to better calculate an incoming missile’s trajectory.

The deployment of the entire series of Voronezh-class radars will effectively “plug” existing “holes” in Russia’s missile warning system in the northwest, southwest, south and southeast – something even the Soviet Union failed to achieve.

Russia has been modernizing its missile warning systems since 2000.

To ensure the security of its borders, Moscow needs to replace its old Soviet-era radar facilities as well as the ones lost in the Baltic countries, Ukraine and Belarus after the fall of the Soviet Union.

 

[Hindustani78]

January 10, 2017

12:22
Russian Strategic Missile Forces to conduct over 10 ICBM launches in 2017, including tests of prospective weapons - Defense Ministry (Part 2)

10:33
Northern Fleet's air defense formation armed with S-400 Triumf to be put on combat duty in 2017

http://tass.com/defense/924181

SEVEROMORSK, January 10. /TASS/. A new regiment of S-400 Triumf (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) surface-to-air missile systems will assume combat duty in the Northern Fleet’s Air Force and Air Defense Army this year, Fleet spokesman Captain 1st Rank Vadim Serga said on Tuesday.

"Late in 2016, the personnel of the division’s air defense missile units already learnt to operate the new systems at the Kapustin Yar practice range [the Astrakhan Region in south Russia] during initial combat firing drills," the spokesman said.

"The drills practiced the tasks of an air defense battle with the use of missile targets imitating an attack by modern weapons in the daytime and at night in complex weather conditions amid the notional enemy’s active jamming," he added.

The S-400 complex is designated to destroy all types of modern and perspective aerospace attack means. It is capable of hitting aerodynamic targets at a range of up to 400 kilometers (249 miles) and tactical ballistic targets flying at a speed of 4.8 km/s (3 mi/s) at a distance of up to 60 kilometers (37 miles) at altitudes of several meters to several dozen kilometers.

Russia’s Defense Ministry announced in late 2015 that it had started work on a state armament program through 2025. Prior to that, Shoigu said the program would be worth 30 trillion rubles ($500 billion). The current state armament program for 2011-2020 is worth about 20 trillion rubles ($330 billion).

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged in the summer of 2016 to keep the pace of preparing a new state program. He said at a session of the military and industrial commission at that time that the state defense order assignments had been 97% fulfilled in 2015.


http://tass.com/defense/924230

 

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10:40
Air defense regiment armed with S-400 'Triumph' missiles put on combat duty in Moscow region - Russian Defense Ministry

10:26
Four S-400 air defense systems to be supplied to Russian Aerospace Forces in 2017 - Defense Ministry

http://tass.com/defense/924366

MOSCOW, January 11. /TASS/. Four S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems will enter service in Russia’s Aerospace Forces this year, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

"A total of four air defense regiments were re-equipped with the S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft missile system in 2016. Another four S-400 systems will enter service in the Aerospace Forces in 2017," the ministry said.

The new missile system arrived in the Moscow Region from a firing range in Kapustin Yar in the Astrakhan Region, southern Russia, after successful firing exercises.


The S-400 Triumf is the most advanced long-range anti-aircraft missile system that went into service in 2007. It is capable of destroying aircraft and cruise missiles at a distance of up to 400 km and ballistic targets flying at a speed of 4.8 km per second - at a distance of 60 km.

 

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10:57
Four S-400 Triumf battalion sets to bolster air defense system in north-western Russia - Defense Ministry (Part 2)

http://tass.com/defense/924604
YEKATERINBURG, January 12. /TASS/. Air defense missile and artillery systems Pantsir-S1 have entered duty in western Siberia, the press-service of the Central Military District has told TASS.


"In a special ceremony the newest missile and artillery systems Pantsir-S1 were handed over to the personnel of an air defense unit of the Central Military District in Novosibirsk. They are responsible for protecting crucial military and industrial facilities and enhancing the air defense of western Siberia," the press-service said.

In the middle of December air defense personnel carried out a test firing program at the Ashuluk proving ground in the Astrakhan Region.

"The crews had undergone a course of training at a center in the Leningrad Region in advance," the Central Military District said.

Pantsir-S1 is a self-propelled air defense system. It was designed to provide protection from small military, administrative and industrial facilities from all means of air attack in an adverse radio-electronic situation and in any weather. Its missiles and artillery shells can hit all types of manned aircraft and drones.

 

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia will carry out first flight tests of a missile for its revived combat railway-based ballistic missile systems in 2019, a defense industry source said Thursday.

"They will be carried out in two years, in 2019," the source told RIA Novosti.

According to previous media reports, the new 'death' train, codenamed "Barguzin," is expected to carry six intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Iskander system’s designer Valery Kashin
© Ekaterina Shtukina/TASS

http://tass.com/defense/925359

MOSCOW, January 17. /TASS/. A Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile fired from the Plesetsk spaceport has successfully hit a hypothetical target at a firing range in Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, the Russian defense ministry said on Tuesday.

"The missile’s exercise head hit a hypothetical target at a firing range in the Kamchatka Peninsula with high degree of precision. The launch was geared to confirm the stability of flight characteristics of this type of intercontinental ballistic missiles," the ministry said.

The three-stage solid-fuel silo-based Topol-M missile and its mobile modification were developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering. Tests began in 1994. The missile’s silo-based modification was put into service in 2000. The missile’s operational range is 11,000 kilometers, its launch weight is 46.5 tonnes, the throw weight is 1.2 tonnes. It has one warhead.

 

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Yars Missile system on the territory of teykovo air defense missile formation in Ivanovo region.

Units of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces will be equipped with the latest in camouflage technology in 2017, with the priority given to Topol-class ICBM-launching units, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

According to a Ministry statement cited by Russia's RIA Novosti news agency, the nuclear forces will receive up to 1,500 kits for their mobile missile units, "more than 15 times more" than they did in 2013. Two thirds of the new kits are designated for summer use, with the remaining 500 to be used in winter conditions. Altogether, the kits are expected to improve survivability up to tenfold.

The Russian military uses the MKT-4L and MKT-2S camouflage kits for its military units. When deployed, the special kits protect vehicles and fortifications from optical and radar reconnaissance.

According to the kits' manufacturer, they are adaptable to temperatures between —40 and +50 degrees Celsius, last between 1-3 years, are water, gas, diesel and oil-resistant, are self-extinguishing, and are small and light enough to be transported by any vehicle.

This year, Missile Troops' units will also expected to be complemented with 70 engineering vehicles, including the Listva demining vehicle, as well heavy engineering and camoflague units, as well as over two specially-equipped dozen bulldozers, mine layers, excavators and crane-equipped trucks to assist with the missile-carrying units' deployment.

 

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https://sputniknews.com/military/201701261050019124-russia-radar-defense/

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The radar field of the missile attack warning system allows controlling the missile launches within a radius of 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) around the Russian borders, the Russian Izvestia newspaper said.

The restoration of the united radar field around Russia was finished in late 2016, however, the part of the field, which monitors the missile activity beyond the Arctic Circle has not become operational yet, the publication said, citing a source in the Russia Aerospace Forces.

According to the media outlet, the Russian missile attack warning system consists of three elements — space satellites monitoring missile launches, ground early warning radar systems calculating the movement trajectory of a missile, and the Don-2N radar station based in the Moscow Region and designed to detect and track the ballistic missiles, as well as to aim interceptor missiles at a target.

Since 2008, Russia has been developing a unified air and missile defense system, designed to integrate not only its own air and missile defense systems, but also those of other CIS countries. In fact, the creation of this system means the gradual obliteration of the line between tactical and strategic air and missile defense systems. The concept of a unified system involves the creation of a multilayered and multitiered air and missile defense system capable of effectively engaging aerial targets at different ranges and altitudes.