First S-400 missile regiment to go on combat duty in Russia 12:51|27/ 02/ 2007 MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti) - The first air defense regiment equipped with new S-400 Triumf ground-to-air missile systems will be put on combat duty in the Moscow Region in the middle of 2007, a manufacturer said Tuesday. The Military-Industrial Commission, which answers directly to the Russian president, meets Tuesday to consider prospects for a fifth-generation air-defense system and building aerospace defenses in the country. "The [new] regiment will have more [missile] batteries than regiments currently equipped with S-300 air defense systems," said Alexander Lemansky, chief designer at the Almaz Science and Production Association. Lemansky said new S-400 systems considerably differ from S-300 systems by their effective firing range, firing capacity and other parameters. S-300 (SA-10 Grumble) anti-aircraft missile system was designed to protect military and industrial facilities from mass air strikes. A missile launched from the system can travel at a speed of 2,000 meters per second and is capable of hitting a target at a distance of 150 km (93 miles) flying at a height of up to 30 km (19 miles) and at a speed of up to 10,000 km/h (6,215 mph). "The effective firing range of the new [S-400] system is twice that of the previous S-300 [system] and its firing capacity is more than double," Lemansky said. First Deputy Prime Minister and former defense minister Sergei Ivanov, who oversees defense-related sectors and chairs today's meeting of the commission, earlier said new S-400 Triumf ground-to-air missile systems were adopted for service in late 2006 and will be placed on alert duty later this year.

History of the creation
By the basic developer OF ZRS "triumph" is JOINT STOCK COMPANY OF "NPO" Almaz".The academician OF A.A. Of raspletina" (it enters into the composition of concern PVO - AIR DEFENSE "Almaz -Antey"). It can be used by day and at night under any weather- climatic and physicogeographical conditions with the intensive radio-electronic opposition. "Triumph" - the system of nonstrategic ABOUT and anti-aircraft defense with the newest software.

From the previous versions ZRS of family S -300 it is differed in terms of the extended zone of combat employment and it can use existing and new ZUR. New ZUR is intended for the first priority defeat of aircraft DRLO and REB, air KP, strategic bombers, OTBR and IRBM on the distance to 400 km ZUR 9M9'E and 9M9'E2 are standardized between themselves and can be used ship zenith rocket systems. ZUR 9M9'E2 is characterized by more high-powered engine, larger length, starting mass and distance of defeat. Their effectiveness is approximately 2 times higher than the possibilities ZUR "Patriot" OF RACES -3 and "Aster". Furthermore, "Triumph" can use rockets YA8N'E and YA8N'E2. All ZUR of vertical launching with the inertial guidance system (frequency control on the march and active radar terminal homing) indicated. In the target area gas-dynamic control, which ensures the maneuver of rocket with an increase in the overload per 20 units, is used. Purpose is surprised by HE fragmentation BCH with the radio-detonator and system of multiple projection initiation.

Self-propelled launcher - SPU (heavy and facilitated on the automobile chassis of high passability) ensures transport, preparation and launching of any types ZUR. On heavy SPU it can be established to 4 standard TPK, in each of which it is placed on one new ZUR or on four types 9M9'E and 9M9'E2 of medium distance. On lightened SPU (chassis of automobile "KAMAZ") is placed the block of 12 small ZUR in single TPK.

ZRS "Triumph" with new ZUR will compose the basis of air defense VVS for the next 30-40 years. Thus, the efforts of Russian designers and engineers developed rockets, according to their tactical-technical characteristics the exceeding foreign analogs, including American and French.

It is expected that the first regiment, armed BY ZRS S -400 "triumph", will intercede to standby alert in the summer of 2007 in the region of g.Elektrostal'

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