Along with the announcement of a large-scale live-fire exercise in Crimea on March 20, Russian military officials also officially released images of the S-400 air defense system that the country brought to this Black Sea peninsula.
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| Russia's large-scale military exercises in Crimea involve 2,500 airborne troops and about 600 pieces of equipment from the Black Sea Fleet and Aerospace Forces. |
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| Three divisions were simultaneously alerted and part of them were deployed to Crimea along with weapons and other equipment. |
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| Previously, on January 14, for the first time in Crimea, Russia began to carry out combat duty of an anti-aircraft missile regiment equipped with the S-400 system. However, after more than 2 months, Russia has just released images of this state-of-the-art air defense system. |
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| Lieutenant General Sevastyanov said that combat duty in Crimea is carried out simultaneously with the S-300 and S-400 systems. |
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| General Sevastyanov particularly emphasized that Crimea is now capable of tracking and shooting down all air targets, including "stealth" ones. |
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| The S-400 missile system, developed by the Design Bureau of Almaz-Antey Corporation, Russia, is an improved version with more powerful features than the S-300 series of surface-to-air missile systems. This system was put into service in April 2007 and first deployed in the field 4 months later. |
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| The system can destroy all objects appearing in the air, including aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or ballistic missiles, at an altitude of 50 km and a maximum target speed of up to 4,800 m/s. |
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| The S-400 is capable of tracking 300 targets and simultaneously shooting down 36 of them. In particular, the S-400 is capable of shooting down strategic missiles with a range of up to 3,500 km, nearly 4 times that of the US Patriot system. |
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| This missile complex integrates anti-jamming multi-function radar, automatic detection and aiming system, air defense missiles, launchers and command and control center. |
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| The S-400 can fire five types of missiles to create a layered defense mechanism. |
According to TPO
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