SAM S-400 "Triumph"
I was lucky to visit one of the air defense units located near Moscow, armed with the famous Russian anti-aircraft missile system C-400 "Triumph"
S-400 Triumph (according to NATO classification - SA-21 Growler, literally "Grumbler") - Russian long-range and medium-range anti-aircraft missile system, a new generation anti-aircraft missile system. Designed to defeat all modern and promising aerospace attacks - reconnaissance aircraft, strategic and tactical aircraft aviation, tactical, operational-tactical ballistic missiles, medium-range ballistic missiles, hypersonic targets, jammers, airborne radar and guidance aircraft, and others. Each air defense system provides simultaneous firing of up to 36 targets with guidance of up to 72 missiles on them.
2. 28 April 2007, the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation for ZRS "Triumph" was adopted for service.
3. 6 August 2007 of the year in Elektrostal near Moscow was put on combat duty by the first division equipped with the Triumph C-400 anti-aircraft missile system.
4. In 2009, the second division was added to it, which together with the first 606-th Guards anti-aircraft missile regiment.
5. Trials C-400 Triumph Ashuluk and Kapustin Yar confirmed that the Russian air defense system is the best in the world in its characteristics.
And yet, the strength of our army is not in technology, but in the people who serve it.
6. Charging machine.
7. Transport launchers with missiles.
8. Maintenance of the rocket complex is carried out twice a year, in spring and autumn.
9. On this day, just carried out technical work on the maintenance of the missile system.
In the army, everything is done on orders. Read the order.
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11. Jewelry work.
12. He dropped everything in heaven ...))) joke. The rockets from the blow do not explode.
13. The commander of the starting battery is Senior Lieutenant Denis Filatov.
14. Carefully rocket must be put on pallets.
15. Next come the soldiers.
16. Again briefing.
17. Fighters service equipment.
19. Be careful with a plasma reflector, soldier !!!)))
20. Battery on the march.
21. All elements of the system are based on off-road wheeled chassis.
22. Battery on the starting position.
23. C-400 provides the ability to build a layered defense of ground objects from a massive air attack. The system ensures the destruction of targets flying at speeds up to 4 800 m / s at a distance of up to 400 km. with a target height of up to 30 km. At the same time, the minimum range of the complex is only 2 km., And the minimum height of the targets hit is only 5 m. For example, the American Patriot complexes are not capable of destroying targets flying below 60 m. The full deployment time from the marching state to the alert state is 5-10 minutes
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