Russia unveils Tor short-range anti-missile system

Russia has just shown off its new firepower when it released a clip recording images of a Tor-M2 air defense missile system mounted on a tracked vehicle capable of shooting down US and NATO missiles.

The clip released by the Russian Defense Ministry on January 9, 2017, on the occasion of the Army's Air Defense Forces Day, shows soldiers in white uniforms launching missiles from the Tor-M2 short-range air defense missile system, a system designed to protect buildings from enemy missile attacks.

However, Tor can also shoot down anti-tank missiles, and Russia even claims it can intercept laser-guided Paveway bombs that are specialized in penetrating American bunkers.

Russia said the Tor-M2 missile system (which shoots down incoming missiles at a distance of 7-10 km), currently deployed in Belarus, not far from the Polish border, has an accuracy of 80%, according to the Daily Star on January 17.

The Tor-M2 is a successor to the Soviet-era missile system of the same name, developed in 1975 to shoot down NATO cruise missiles.

Moscow has exported some older Tor missiles to Iran, Egypt, Venezuela and even NATO member Greece.

According to TNO