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S-400 Triumph SAM crews repel air strike in Leningrad region

Russian Aviaton » Thursday December 6, 2018 22:00 MSK
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In the Leningrad Region, air defence units of the Western Military District have completed tasks of repelling a mock enemy air strike as part of their combat readiness training.

In accordance with the training plan, calculations of the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems made a march to the designated positional area. Then the vehicles were put into combat position, after which the crews performed a topographical survey and of the SAM on the ground.

During the training session, the S-400 SAM combat crews detected, captured, tracked, and made electronic launches of missiles by means of a mock enemy air attack.

Troops also practised marching to a new positional area and repelling an attack of a mock sabotage group.

The drills involved some 100 troops, over 30 pieces of armaments and military hardware.