Kuril ridge will cover the complexes "Ball" and "Bastion"
Now on the islands there are groups of technical specialists who choose places for the deployment of launchers and personnel. Work on the equipment of the firing positions should begin next year.
"Mobile coastal complexes" Bastion "armed with supersonic anti-ship missiles" Onyx ", capable of hitting targets at a distance of 600 km (if there is a helicopter with a radar complex). Batteries stationed on Matua in the middle of the Kuril Ridge are capable of sweeping through the entire archipelago from Kamchatka in the north to Iturup in the south. This will reliably “lock up” the Sea of Okhotsk and cover the island of Sakhalin and Primorye from possible attacks, ”writes the newspaper referring to the Navy Headquarters.
Complexes "Ball" (firing range up to 120 km) will provide defense of the bases themselves fleet in case the enemy is nearby or tries to land a naval landing on Matua or Paramushira.
Naval expert Alexander Mozgovoy:
According to him, building full-fledged naval bases on pieces of land remote from the mainland is very difficult and expensive, so the reliance on coastal forces is fully justified.
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