S-300/400 ORBAT. Battalions and Regiments

By wikipedia Russia has now 19 RGTs S-400 or 38 battalions.

There are tests of an anti-aircraft anti-missile anti-missile system for the S-500 complex, work is under way to create other advanced air defense and anti-missile systems. wrote:

Maybe we will see S-500 in 2025. Where is 40N6 ? All new S-400 battalion use 5P85SM TEL with standard tube for 48N6DM missile.

It has already been alluded that recent exercises using very long range missiles were 40N6 since S-300V4 were not present during the test.

Most believe the S-500 will be using a further modification of S-300V4 missile.

And as usual, any photos and movie from the 40N6 tests. That is a lot of 48N6 48N6DM, 9M96 test material and none of the 40N6. Russia has been working on this missile for 20 years.

I tend to trust the ministry of defense since there wasn't any videos of the exercise at all yet it did happen.

Do you have info to state otherwise?

Arrow wrote:By wikipedia Russia has now 19 RGTs S-400 or 38 battalions.




Maybe we will see S-500 in 2025. Where is 40N6 ? All new S-400 battalion use 5P85SM TEL with standard tube for 48N6DM missile.

Don't believe them. Shoiku said 13 Rgt's the other day plus those tracking say 16. I suspect 13 are complete and 3 are in transition.

This is not a lot of S-400 systems now. Russia need about 50 RGT.

There are 56 S-400 battalions / divisions / batteries on order. There are 28-30 battalions of 300PMU's and deliveries will start soon of a planned 38 battalions / batteries of 350's which replaces the 300PS's and PT's left operational. Plus the 500's will soon start to arrive.

rambo54 wrote:Strange; MOD Shoygu reports of 13 (!) RGT S-400....


My count is 15 - 16* RGTs:

Moscow: 5 (606, 210, 93, 584, 549)
St. Petersbg: 2 (500, 1488)
Kaliningrd: 1 (183)
Murmansk: 1 (531)
Severodvinsk: 1 (1528)
Kamchatka: 1 (1532)
Nachodka: 1 (589)
Novorossisk: 1 (1537)
Crimea: 1 (18)
Novosibirsk: 1 (590)
Vladivostok: 1 (1533)




But even when we leave out the 1533 we would have 15 RGT right now...and not 13 ??????

Total is 17 regiments , with the first set deployed this year
Seems that 13 are managed by VKS and 4 the Navy

606 ZRP in Elektrostal received a regimental set , (the first) in 2009 , and another set last year for replace the first
The first regimental set went to Kasputin Yar range (Astrakhan Oblast) as part of 185 TsBP i PeLS for training purposes as replacement for S-300
Nowadays , a battery of this unit is deployed in Syria
The 16 ZPR regiments of your list are OK , including the 1533th of Vladivostok, of course , deployed in 2015

1st ARMY PVOiPRO MOSCOW SPECIAL PURPOSE COMMAND
4ºDIV: 93rd (Funkovo) , 210th (Dubrovka) , 584th (Marino-Solnechnogosk)
5ºDIV: 549th (Podolsk) , 606th (Elektrostal)

45th ARMY VVSiPVO of NORTH JSC  (Joint Strategic Comand)
1ºDIV: 531st (Poliarny) , 1528th (Severovdinsk)

BALTIC FLEET
44ºDIV: 183rd (Gvardeysk/Kaliningrad Oblast)

6º ARMY VVSiPVO
18ºDIV: 500th (Lomosonov), 1488th (Zelenogorsk)

4º ARMY VVSiPVO
51ºDIV: 1537th (Novorossiysk)
31ºDIV: 18th (Feodosia)

14º ARMY VVSiPVO
41ºDIV: 590th (Novosibirsk)

11º ARMY VVSiPVO
93ºDIV: 589th (Nakhodka) , 1533rd (Vladivostok)

PACIFIC FLEET
53ºDIV: 1532nd (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka)

TRAINING REGIMENT; Ashuluk (Astrakhan Oblast)

Arrow wrote:
By wikipedia Russia has now 19 RGTs S-400 or 38 battalions.

Russian Wikipedia list of S-400 has at least two mistakes:
The new 33th ZRP at Rogachevo (Novaya Zemlya) have S-300
The supossed regiment at Tiksi (Sakha Republik) is projected but for the moment not deployed, and it seems that it will also have S-300
These S-300 are surplus from regiments that have received S-400

So , as I said before, the total is 17 regiments, 16 combat regiments and one training/test regiment
The number of Battalions must be 35 because Kamchatka regiment have 3 battalions instead 2
Total projected is 56 battalions , about 10-11 more regiments for deploy before 2020

AMCXXL wrote:

rambo54 wrote:Strange; MOD Shoygu reports of 13 (!) RGT S-400....


My count is 15 - 16* RGTs:

Moscow: 5 (606, 210, 93, 584, 549)
St. Petersbg: 2 (500, 1488)
Kaliningrd: 1 (183)
Murmansk: 1 (531)
Severodvinsk: 1 (1528)
Kamchatka: 1 (1532)
Nachodka: 1 (589)
Novorossisk: 1 (1537)
Crimea: 1 (18)
Novosibirsk: 1 (590)
Vladivostok: 1 (1533)




But even when we leave out the 1533 we would have 15 RGT right now...and not 13 ??????

Total is 17 regiments , with the first set deployed this year
Seems that 13 are managed by VKS and 4 the Navy

606 ZRP in Elektrostal received a regimental set , (the first) in 2009 , and another set last year for replace the first
The first regimental set went to Kasputin Yar range (Astrakhan Oblast) as part of 185 TsBP i PeLS for training purposes as replacement for S-300
Nowadays , a battery of this unit is deployed in Syria
The 16 ZPR regiments of your list are OK , including the 1533th of Vladivostok, of course , deployed in 2015

1st ARMY PVOiPRO MOSCOW SPECIAL PURPOSE COMMAND
4ºDIV: 93rd (Funkovo) , 210th (Dubrovka) , 584th (Marino-Solnechnogosk)
5ºDIV: 549th (Podolsk) , 606th (Elektrostal)

45th ARMY VVSiPVO of NORTH FLEET JSC  (Joint Strategic Comand)
1ºDIV: 531st (Poliarny) , 1528th (Severovdinsk)

BALTIC FLEET
44ºDIV: 183rd (Gvardeysk/Kaliningrad Oblast)

6º ARMY VVSiPVO
18ºDIV: 500th (Lomosonov), 1488th (Zelenogorsk)

4º ARMY VVSiPVO
51ºDIV: 1537th (Novorossiysk)
31ºDIV: 18th (Feodosia)

14º ARMY VVSiPVO
41ºDIV: 590th (Novosibirsk)

11º ARMY VVSiPVO
93ºDIV: 589th (Nakhodka) , 1533rd (Vladivostok)

PACIFIC FLEET
53ºDIV: 1532nd (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka)

TRAINING REGIMENT; Kasputin Yarv (Astrakhan Oblast)

Arrow wrote:
By wikipedia Russia has now 19 RGTs S-400 or 38 battalions.

Russian Wikipedia list of S-400 has at least two mistakes:
The new 33th ZRP at Rogachevo (Novaya Zemlya) have S-300
The supossed regiment at Tiksi (Sakha Republik) is projected but for the moment not deployed, and it seems that it will also have S-300
These S-300 are surplus from regiments that have received S-400

So , as I said before, the total is 17 regiments, 16 combat regiments and one training/test regiment
The number of Battalions must be 35 because Kamchatka regiment have 3 battalions instead 2
Total projected is 56 battalions , about 10-11 more regiments for deploy before 2020

Apparently a training unit also at Yaroslavl in conjunction with the training Academy.

franco wrote:

Apparently a training unit also at Yaroslavl in conjunction with the training Academy.  

The list only is about the S-400 current known deployements, I heard nothing about Yaroslavl for now
Not clear.... after read several webpages, all the S-400 , or most of them, was tested at Kasputin Yar before to be deployed to its regiments
The first set of ZPR 606th has been sent to other place, propably in Astrakhan Oblast as I read

I though that the training range for S-300/400 is in Ashuluk , and I saw in a ORBAT that there was a S-300 training unit , but I cannot remember where I read that
In wikipdia (2008) >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forces_of_central_subordination_of_the_Russian_Air_Force_2008

185th TsBP i PeLS has at least:
-116th Operational Combat Training Regiment (Privolzhsky-Astrakhan) Mig-29
-42th Operational Training Center (Ashuluk-Astrakhan Oblast) SAM and targets.

Not sure if 4th Misile Test Range "Kasputin Yar" (really a "cosmodrome") is now included , but is near (the same "Oblast" or russian district)
Probably I read that news in a conventional web , not specialized , and probably the final destiny is mistaken , and is Ashuluk , and also a part of this regimental set was sent to Syria, as I read
You can look at the satellite 50 km east of Ashuluk village,big facilities and a quantity of material and... large trucks??
It seems logical to think that training/test units are concentrated in southern Russia (Astrakhan, Krasnodar ...)


About that you say about Yaroslavl, probably ten years ago there was a regiment of 4th Brigade VKO (Today 4th división of PVO) , but the things changed a lot and several times in last ten years. VKO forces changed to PVO and now integrated with VVS into VKS
In Yaroslavl also is (or was) the: "ANTI AIRCRAFT DEFENSE INSTITUTE" , not a test range. In a place like this can be "prototypes" of launchers , not battaliions or other units.
It is an Institute of AA "engineering" as it seems

Also I have read in a couple of webpages that in Yaroslav is placed the GATCHINA Range, but this is mistaken, this place is in Leningrad Oblast:
"Gatchina training aviation and air defense center" or "Center for anti-aircraft missile troops", At Uchhoz (Gatchina-3) , depends the date or the place you find the information
The problem is that the translators also translate as "training" , (academic) "formation". Probably here also, active troops study and take contact with new missile systems
The last tittle found ,  Gátchina Aerospace Defense Academy . It does not seem that there are units with troops here, only students, even if there is any launcher for practices without fire. On the satelite you do not see great facilities or materials and it is very close to Pushkin, on the outskirts of Leningrad



The matter with the information is all the ORBAT´s you can find in internet are just "the opinión" of the writer , generally a "defence advisor" as could be a "stock exchange advisor"  or a simply journalist that write about military information, even in places as Globalsecurity or Jane´s
Other sites as Wikipedia , fórums, etc... generally have a lot of outdated or mistaken information , thinking that the ORBAT is in remodeling right now

Russian Defense Ministry does not give information about the ORBAT (of course) so all you can do is find information on serious and specialized Russian websites, forums and blogs , and get reliable data

The two better websites with enough current data were warfare.ru/warfare.be, closed last year and milkavkaz.net written by a russian, recently locked
I see in this forum , some information copied from milkavkaz.net
It's really bad luck not to have copied the whole web (even in russian), despite their errors/omissions

Just to remarks:

1.
1533
no S-400 deployment as of July 2017!
(one site still with PS and one site without TELs)
2.
Number of Batts its harder to determine than RGT
e.g. major changes in 183
6 Batts now.
2 S-300PS changed position and the two 5P85T2 moved to forward postions! Moreover there are two S-400 with 5P85S2. So we have 4 Batts of S-400 with 183!

Same situation of 531 RGt.
12 TELs (S2) with Radar sets for 2 Batts at Gadschievo
two more (mixed sites) Batt with S2 at (two sites) at Severomorsk together with Two Batt of S-300PM.

rambo54 wrote:Just to remarks:

1.
1533
no S-400 deployment as of July 2017!
(one site still with PS and one site without TELs)
2.
Number of Batts its harder to determine than RGT
e.g. major changes in 183
6 Batts now.
2 S-300PS changed position and the two 5P85T2 moved to forward postions! Moreover there are two S-400 with 5P85S2. So we have 4 Batts of S-400 with 183!

Same situation of 531 RGt.
12 TELs (S2) with Radar sets for 2 Batts at Gadschievo
two more (mixed sites) Batt with S2 at (two sites) at Severomorsk together with Two Batt of S-300PM.

If I understand, you say you try to "count battalions" using the satellite images?
The satellite is useful to know that there is a place on a specific date, but not to determine accurately the composition of a unit
A example of mistaken ORBAT:
Both warfare.ru and globalsecurity have located "5 SU-27 and 5 Su-25" in Kant year after year
Of course that is false, maybe one specific day there were 5 Su-27 doing maneuvers, as another I saw Su-24 or Mig-31. Kant only had one unit with 6 Su-25 (5+1UB) and one complete squadron since 2015

Battalions are soldiers, not missile launchers
Squadrons are pilots, not airplanes

I think it is not possible a regiment with 6 battalions, probably the old machines are in reserve/waitnig for a new destination
Some S-300 habe been relocated expanding regiments, open new regiments or sold to other countries. The rest couuld stay in their place
The most probable is 3-4 battallions in most units , and 2 in the smaller units or new formed units that waiting for more material

The only thing is true, when MoD accepts the material after testing it, it is assigned to a unit.This is a conclusive fact when it is published every year by MoD
The fact that it is not parked at its theoric base, at a particular moment, is not conclusive, it may be somewhere else
There are many facilities undergoing renovations/upgrades and other of new construction , including the PVO bases
For example the Su-34 "of Vorónezh" , are not in Vorónezh , but that does not mean they are not operational , have been in Buturnilovka for 4 years

Benya wrote:
I don't know that who and why did downed those two sites, I have visited both of them frequently (mostly milkavkaz). It's a pity   . However I have managed to find milkavkaz in a web archive, and collected some info. I plan to get my ORBAT topics back on track by September with updates to the Ground Forces and VKS ORBAT threads, and adding the Navy's.

It's easy to imagine: "KGB"

I do not only count sites but Radar support. Just look at the 183 (ggole & Terraserver)

Kaliningrad - 183 RGT
many things have changed.

The 12x 5P85T2 at Gwardeisk have been transferrred to two other locations:
Baltysk: 1 site with 1 Batt (with 6x T2 TELs): 54.600538° 19.847339°
Baltiyskoye: 1 site with 1 Batt (with 6x T2 TELs): 54.480249° 19.916012°

The 2x8 S-300PS which had occupied these sites before seems to have been transferred to:
Gwardeisk: 1 site with 2x4 5P85S: 54.682654° 21.012234° and
Chernjachovsk: 1 site with 2x4 5P85S & D: 54.614255°21.810721°
The 5N64S is at Chernjachovsk = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMENe3KZnec&feature=youtu.be

Moreover there are two S-400 sites with 5P85S2:
Jantarny: 1 site with 6x S2 TELs: 54.872952° 19.953052°
Dorozhnoye: 1 site with 6x S2 TELs: 54.746007° 20.072403°
The 91N6 vehicle supporting the 4x S-400 Batts is at Lunino 54.747646°19.971054° (seen non deployed at google earth now).

Benya wrote:

AMCXXL wrote:The two better websites with enough current data were warfare.ru/warfare.be, closed last year and milkavkaz.net written by a russian, recently locked
I see in this forum , some information copied from milkavkaz.net
It's really bad luck not to have copied the whole web (even in russian), despite their errors/omissions

I don't know that who and why did downed those two sites, I have visited both of them frequently (mostly milkavkaz). It's a pity   . However I have managed to find milkavkaz in a web archive, and collected some info. I plan to get my ORBAT topics back on track by September with updates to the Ground Forces and VKS ORBAT threads, and adding the Navy's.

warfare switched to a pay for view format and then seemed to fade off into the sunset
milkavkaz (actually an Ukrainian) tried to sell his site for about 6 months while trying to get a job with any Western Think Tank. Believe he is still looking for a job but his site is gone. Could either be the new Ukrainian internet regulations or his domain had expired.
vlad before those two was also an excellant source of information. He has been gone for at least 10 years.
Plus several others and I always copy

As for sat imagery and PVO, Sean O'C was one of the best and this site has as a member the best I have seen since Jane's hired O'C to work exclusively for them.

rambo54 wrote:I do not only count sites but Radar support. Just look at the 183 (ggole & Terraserver)

Kaliningrad - 183 RGT
many things have changed.

The 12x 5P85T2 at Gwardeisk have been transferrred to two other locations:
Baltysk: 1 site with 1 Batt (with 6x T2 TELs): 54.600538° 19.847339°
Baltiyskoye: 1 site with 1 Batt (with 6x T2 TELs): 54.480249° 19.916012°

The 2x8 S-300PS which had occupied these sites before seems to have been transferred to:
Gwardeisk: 1 site with 2x4 5P85S: 54.682654° 21.012234° and
Chernjachovsk: 1 site with 2x4 5P85S & D: 54.614255°21.810721°
The 5N64S is at Chernjachovsk

Moreover there are two S-400 sites with 5P85S2:
Jantarny: 1 site with 6x S2 TELs: 54.872952° 19.953052°
Dorozhnoye: 1 site with 6x S2 TELs: 54.746007° 20.072403°
The 91N6 vehicle supporting the 4x S-400 Batts is at Lunino 54.747646°19.971054° (seen non deployed at google earth now).

Hello.My native tongue is not english so is probable I cannot understand the exact meaning of some phrases or words , and translators do not work miracles

When you write "Batt." , what do you mean?  What mens "4x S-400 Batt." ??
The units have different names in different countries
In my country:
A Colonel commands a Regiment
A Lieutenant Colonel commands a Battalion (infantry) / Group (cavalry, artillery)
A Captain commands a Company (infantry), Squadron (cavalry), Battery (artillery)
A Lieutenant commands a Section in all branches

I use here: Regiment/Battalion/Battery because I beleive this is standard in english speaking countries , despite in russian are using "división" for S-300/400 battallions

About Kaliningrad , If I remember there are two regiments in the división, Baltysk is in the coast and other places as Chernyakhovsk  are in the interior, on the other side of the province. Are all locations of the same unit?
How many battallions had the 183rd , before to receive the S-400 ?

franco wrote:

Benya wrote:

AMCXXL wrote:The two better websites with enough current data were warfare.ru/warfare.be, closed last year and milkavkaz.net written by a russian, recently locked
I see in this forum , some information copied from milkavkaz.net
It's really bad luck not to have copied the whole web (even in russian), despite their errors/omissions

I don't know that who and why did downed those two sites, I have visited both of them frequently (mostly milkavkaz). It's a pity   . However I have managed to find milkavkaz in a web archive, and collected some info. I plan to get my ORBAT topics back on track by September with updates to the Ground Forces and VKS ORBAT threads, and adding the Navy's.

warfare switched to a pay for view format and then seemed to fade off into the sunset
milkavkaz (actually an Ukrainian) tried to sell his site for about 6 months while trying to get a job with any Western Think Tank. Believe he is still looking for a job but his site is gone. Could either be the new Ukrainian internet regulations or his domain had expired.
vlad before those two was also an excellant source of information. He has been gone for at least 10 years.
Plus several others and I always copy

As for sat imagery and PVO, Sean O'C was one of the best and this site has as a member the best I have seen since Jane's hired O'C to work exclusively for them.  

Warfare and milkavkaz was good for the numbers and locations of missile regments and things like that but not for other things, as that particular aircraft are in service
The satellite is useful but not conclusive
The matter with the soviet weapons , is Rusiia have a lot of them and is not posible to know exactely what weapon is in use and what is in reserve or retired
For example if you look Armavir , you could see some Mig-29 , more of 20 , the same at Kuschevskaya , more of 30 , Privolzsky,etc...
But how many are flying rigth now???
Last year about 6-7 UB´s at Armavir and similar number in Kuschevskaya
This year in Armavir only fly Yak-130,  and in Kuschevskaya one squadron of 12-14 Mig-29UB
The rest are "stored" or in reserve, many with paint in poor condition. The same happends with other units
About russian modern weapons , there are enough information about numbers deployed
About "ucranian" , well for me a ucranian is like a russian if write in russsian , my aunt is from ukraine, she worked in Kiev in soviet times and later in Moscow when the ukrainian economy failed , and she can not understand what is happening there now , that she is retired in my country
The only advantage of being "ucranian" is that you can find easy many information in russian (cirilic) characters
to get a job with any Western Think Tank??? I think that it's easier than a westerner (US,canadian,british ,israelite... ) get to be governor of an oblast or minister of the government of Ukraine as they are the things today

rambo54 wrote:

franco wrote:New S-300PS regiment went on combat duty in Abakan. Have heard it will be called the 170th.

"The anti-aircraft missile systems S-300PS today (Friday) at 10.00 local time (06.00 MSK) atonement for combat duty in the Republic of Khakassia", - told Shchemelev.

According to the source, the calculations Abakan anti-aircraft missile compound successfully completed the training course for new weapons, carried out a program of training and combat shooting on Ashuluk range in the Astrakhan region in late March. "To accommodate the new S-300 systems were equipped with the appropriate positions," - said the representative of the military.

He said that the anti-aircraft missile compound was formed on the territory of Abakan December 1, 2015. "The main objective of anti-aircraft gunners - cover important objects in the zone of responsibility", - said Shchemelev.

S-300PS - anti-aircraft missile system of medium-range, designed to destroy air targets at ranges up to 300 kilometers, flying at speeds up to 1.2 thousand meters per second. The complex is able to simultaneously fire six goals, suggesting every two missiles.

Did you found it already? History is of no help - as far as I know there never was a S-200/300 RGT in that district...

bmpd.livejournal.com/2302353.html

Deployment of only the newly-created 170th anti-aircraft missile regiment of the 41st Air Defense Division of the 14th Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Central Military District to the anti-aircraft missile brigade. The 170th Missile Regiment was formed in Khakassia on the order of the Russian Defense Minister on October 1, 2015 (the regiment's control was the Boots of the Ust-Abansk District, near Abakan), entered combat duty on July 1, 2016, and, according to open sources, had In its composition two battalions (два дивизиона) of ZRS S-300PS

It should be noted that during Soviet times in the area of ​​Abakan anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Defense Forces were absent. In the territory of Khakassia, only the south of Abakan in the Sayanogorsk area in 1983-1993, the 352nd anti-aircraft missile regiment, equipped with the S-75 SAM and specially deployed for the Irkutsk 39th Air Defense Corps (later the 94th Air Defense Division), was stationed Covering the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP.

It can be assumed that a second group of S-300P SAM battalions was set up as part of the newly formed brigade to deploy the former 352th anti-aircraft missile regiment in the areas of deployment to cover the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP.

Hi! I'm no native english speaker too. So the blame is pretty much on my side.

First let me say that I appreciate your input. I'm just a private reseacher and nerd. And I'm far from being perfect.

You are right : I'm basically counting sites.
Because the inner structure of the AD RGT are not known to me and it varies over the time.
Your structure : RGT/Battalion/Battery is fair for the Airforce AD scene.

RGT should be easy for "guys like us". So how many Battalions and in turn how many Batteries are within a RGT? That varies!
Sometime you have only 4 TELs supported by 30N6 or 92N6. Sometime you have 6 or 8 and sometimes even 12.
And this is not even constant for a certain RGT!

For example the 583 RGT Gadshievo site has 12 S2 TELs - is this one Battalion with two Batteries (two Radar sets are there)? Or is it two Battalions?
In the two Severomorsk sites you have up to 12 other S2 and up to 12 PMs plus Radar. Is this only "reserve" in a garrsion?

A recent video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMENe3KZnec&feature=youtu.be - which I metioned it before) show active PS at Chernjachovsk (183 RGT)!
8 TELs not seen before. Full Radar support - even 5N64.

A year ago only the Gwardeisk site 54.682654° 21.012234° show S-400 (5P85T2). 12 TELs.
Now they CHANGED position with two previous PS sites:
3. Baltysk: 1 site (with 6 T2 TELs): 54.600538° 19.847339° (Is this a Battalion or a Battery?)
4. Baltiyskoye: 1 site (with 6 T2 TELs): 54.480249° 19.916012° (Is this a Battalion or a Battery?)

Both sites had 2x 8 PS before. Where did they go? To Chernjachovsk AND now (see google earth) to Gwardeisk! Gwardeisk has 2x4 PS now at two sub-sites - both with Radar support. Probably Batteries. 5N64 support from Chernjachovsk.
Why do they still use them? I don't know.

The 8 TELs (S1 & D) at Chernjachovsk seems to have one 30N6 see video. Is it one Battalion (I think so)? Or a Battery?
The 2x4 TELs (google earth) at Gwardeisk 54.682303° 21.012422° (at two sub-sites) are EACH supported by a complete Radar set. Is it two Batteries in one Battalion? Or - as previous with the 2x6 T2 TELs - two Battalions?
You see - those things are not easy to determine!

Therefore I admit that at least to me it is more sufficient just to count RGT and sites and not Battalions or Batteries :-)

Two other sites had PS a couple of years ago. But since about two years (without much announcement) transferred to S2!
Some video clips revealed this in 2017:
1. Jantarny: 1 site (with 6 S2 TELs): 54.872952° 19.953052° (Is this a Battalion or a Battery?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw6qjiqxfNQ
2. Dorozhnoye: 1 site (with 6 S2 TELs): 54.746007° 20.072403° (Is this a Battalion or a Battery?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL1Z2rybX1I

So the previous constellation of : (1.-4.) four sites with PS and one site (Gwardeisk) with 12 T2 has changed now.
BTW the 91N6 support for the - well 4 sites ;-) - of S-400 is here (seen non deployed on google) 54.747646° 19.971054°. It changed over from the Gwardeisk position (about here 54.681437°21.021518°).

Regarding the construction of the SM-3 base at Slupsk 54.480478° 17.110407° it makes sense to me to have this base within the envelope of four forward S-400 sites at the western coastline of Kainingrad...backed by 2 more S-300PS sites.

And a mix of those equipment is not uncommon. See 1528 RGT .
Two S-400 (S2) 64.646300° 39.830040° / 64.495963° 39.647178° and two with S-300PM 64.614896° 39.827151° / 64.531434° 40.139405°.
I would count them as 4 Battalions... :-)

Cheers

AMCXXL wrote:

franco wrote:

Benya wrote:

AMCXXL wrote:The two better websites with enough current data were warfare.ru/warfare.be, closed last year and milkavkaz.net written by a russian, recently locked
I see in this forum , some information copied from milkavkaz.net
It's really bad luck not to have copied the whole web (even in russian), despite their errors/omissions

I don't know that who and why did downed those two sites, I have visited both of them frequently (mostly milkavkaz). It's a pity   . However I have managed to find milkavkaz in a web archive, and collected some info. I plan to get my ORBAT topics back on track by September with updates to the Ground Forces and VKS ORBAT threads, and adding the Navy's.

warfare switched to a pay for view format and then seemed to fade off into the sunset
milkavkaz (actually an Ukrainian) tried to sell his site for about 6 months while trying to get a job with any Western Think Tank. Believe he is still looking for a job but his site is gone. Could either be the new Ukrainian internet regulations or his domain had expired.
vlad before those two was also an excellant source of information. He has been gone for at least 10 years.
Plus several others and I always copy

As for sat imagery and PVO, Sean O'C was one of the best and this site has as a member the best I have seen since Jane's hired O'C to work exclusively for them.  

Warfare and milkavkaz was good for the numbers and locations of missile regments and things like that but not for other things, as that particular aircraft are in service
The satellite is useful but not conclusive
The matter with the soviet weapons , is Rusiia have a lot of them and is not posible to know exactely what weapon is in use and what is in reserve or retired
For example if you look Armavir , you could see some Mig-29 , more of 20 , the same at Kuschevskaya , more of 30 , Privolzsky,etc...
But how many are flying rigth now???
Last year about 6-7 UB´s at Armavir and similar number in Kuschevskaya
This year in Armavir only fly Yak-130,  and in Kuschevskaya one squadron of 12-14 Mig-29UB
The rest are "stored" or in reserve, many with paint in poor condition. The same happends with other units
About russian modern weapons , there are enough information about numbers deployed
About "ucranian" , well for me a ucranian is like a russian if write in russsian , my aunt is from ukraine, she worked in Kiev in soviet times and later in Moscow when the ukrainian economy failed , and she can not understand what is happening there now , that she is retired in my country
The only advantage of being "ucranian" is that you can find easy many information in russian (cirilic) characters
to get a job with any Western Think Tank??? I think that it's easier than a westerner (US,canadian,british ,israelite... ) get to be governor of an oblast or minister of the government of Ukraine as they are the things today

rambo54 wrote:

franco wrote:New S-300PS regiment went on combat duty in Abakan. Have heard it will be called the 170th.

"The anti-aircraft missile systems S-300PS today (Friday) at 10.00 local time (06.00 MSK) atonement for combat duty in the Republic of Khakassia", - told Shchemelev.

According to the source, the calculations Abakan anti-aircraft missile compound successfully completed the training course for new weapons, carried out a program of training and combat shooting on Ashuluk range in the Astrakhan region in late March. "To accommodate the new S-300 systems were equipped with the appropriate positions," - said the representative of the military.

He said that the anti-aircraft missile compound was formed on the territory of Abakan December 1, 2015. "The main objective of anti-aircraft gunners - cover important objects in the zone of responsibility", - said Shchemelev.

S-300PS - anti-aircraft missile system of medium-range, designed to destroy air targets at ranges up to 300 kilometers, flying at speeds up to 1.2 thousand meters per second. The complex is able to simultaneously fire six goals, suggesting every two missiles.

Did you found it already? History is of no help - as far as I know there never was a S-200/300 RGT in that district...

bmpd.livejournal.com/2302353.html

Deployment of only the newly-created 170th anti-aircraft missile regiment of the 41st Air Defense Division of the 14th Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Central Military District to the anti-aircraft missile brigade. The 170th Missile Regiment was formed in Khakassia on the order of the Russian Defense Minister on October 1, 2015 (the regiment's control was the Boots of the Ust-Abansk District, near Abakan), entered combat duty on July 1, 2016, and, according to open sources, had In its composition two battalions (два дивизиона) of ZRS S-300PS

It should be noted that during Soviet times in the area of ​​Abakan anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Defense Forces were absent. In the territory of Khakassia, only the south of Abakan in the Sayanogorsk area in 1983-1993, the 352nd anti-aircraft missile regiment, equipped with the S-75 SAM and specially deployed for the Irkutsk 39th Air Defense Corps (later the 94th Air Defense Division), was stationed Covering the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP.

It can be assumed that a second group of S-300P SAM battalions was set up as part of the newly formed brigade to deploy the former 352th anti-aircraft missile regiment in the areas of deployment to cover the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP.

The question I issued are solved to me meanwhile. I'have learned the 170 became 24th now.
It has PS over here 53.613223° 91.230400° (one Battalion :-) )
and here 55.936434° 92.253166° (another Battalion) (see Terraserver)

rambo54 wrote:I do not only count sites but Radar support. Just look at the 183 (ggole & Terraserver)

Kaliningrad - 183 RGT
many things have changed.

The 12x 5P85T2 at Gwardeisk have been transferrred to two other locations:
Baltysk: 1 site with 1 Batt (with 6x T2 TELs): 54.600538° 19.847339°
Baltiyskoye: 1 site with 1 Batt (with 6x T2 TELs): 54.480249° 19.916012°

The 2x8 S-300PS which had occupied these sites before seems to have been transferred to:
Gwardeisk: 1 site with 2x4 5P85S: 54.682654° 21.012234° and
Chernjachovsk: 1 site with 2x4 5P85S & D: 54.614255°21.810721°
The 5N64S is at Chernjachovsk = youtube.com/watch?v=KMENe3KZnec&feature=youtu.be

Moreover there are two S-400 sites with 5P85S2:
Jantarny: 1 site with 6x S2 TELs: 54.872952° 19.953052°
Dorozhnoye: 1 site with 6x S2 TELs: 54.746007° 20.072403°
The 91N6 vehicle supporting the 4x S-400 Batts is at Lunino 54.747646°19.971054° (seen non deployed at google earth now).

Hello:
I try to see the sites.
Terraserver demostrator don´t works, the zoom is locked and cannot get a full zoom, and this is the better place because the images has a date
Google has images of different times. Most viewed sites , the images renew more times
For example, in this moment in Google,  Chernyakhovsk image I can see , has at least 1 year or more, while airbase of Vladivostok has a image of May

Anyway in terraserver I can see the suppossed SAM site of Chernyakhovsk
There are nothing on May, is empty terrain of the base at the end of the runway , behind the last shelters. Could have any vehicle much smaller than a SU-27 , but nothing more
The video is of a maneouvres , a deployment for drills. The PVO garrisons are out of airbases and in Chernyakhovsk airbase there is no PVO garrison or facilities

About the other places I think that may be garrisons battalion-type , regardless of what SAM hardware have at a particular moment

It seems that in Kaliningrad the deployement of a regimental set of S-400 have expanded the 44 División
I see there are 4 units near the coast now
Gvardeivsk is the 44 División Headquarters if I remember that milkavkaz.net said, then should have a headquarters

Can you tell me the location of SAM sites of the 1545 ZPR ?? ( the other regiment of 44 Div. if the number is rigth)



About the ORBAT , I think the thing should be like that >> upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/4th_US_Infantry_Division.png
The specific composition of each basic unit shoul be studied case for case out the orbat diagram
The battalion is the basic maneouver unit since the Roman times (cohors = battalion)
A regiment is an administrative unit, that groups battalions of same branche

The battalion has a liutenant colonel with his staff of command , company of command and company of services (support) , in addition to several combat companies
Of course in the case of artillery all of these companies are called "batteries" have rockets/howitzers or haven´t

In the facilities/garrison of a división , regiment or single battalion must have facilities , barracks , buildings , wharehouses , etc... that a single battery should not have
I think you can look all the garrisons and could find more clues about what type of unit is, despite the hardware parked in one specific moment
To look with satellite images ofen , help because you can look what is happening through the time

I think probably the 44 DIV has been reinforced because the Baltic is a hot place right now
Then , 44 DIV Is in the process of restructuring, it is very difficult to know exactly where everything is, more time is needed

Terraserver changed its policy again but you may have the full zoom (although not comparable to that what they had until last September) by becoming a member (there are three levels of membership - the first (zoom wiht watermarks) is for free!.

1545: Its an S-300V unit - garrison is (still) here 54.602107° 21.233617° - some TELs and Radar visible. A "Battery" deployment often happened here 54.601367° 21.237273° (use history layer in google earth)

Here is the only TO&E of a S400 that I have found on the net;

• Anti-aircraft missile regiment of S-400 consists of:
- Management of the regiment, which includes the command headquarters;
- Automated command post (Battery Management, Department of radar reconnaissance, electromechanical unit where 1 unit of item 55K6E combat control, 1 unit 91N6E detection radar..);
- Group divisions (2-3 anti-aircraft missile division, technical battery);
- Anti-aircraft artillery battalion ZRPK 96K6 "Carapace-C" ( up to 6 units of MB.);
- Radar separation, chemical and biological protection;
- Repair and maintenance companies;
- Company financial security (material support)
- Economic platoon. (supply)

Anti-aircraft missile battalions of S-400 consists of:
- the division of management;
- Electronic battery (Department of command and control, separation of receiving and transmitting devices, separation of radar reconnaissance, where 1 unit 92N6E multifunction control radars, mobile tower 1 unit 40V6M for antenna post 92N6E, 1 unit 96L6E all-altitude radar...);
- Starting battery (3-4 units 5P85TE2 launchers.); Usually 2 but maybe 3-4.
- Electromechanical compartment;
- Automotive platoon;
- Liaison offices;
- Separation of survey;
- Branch of logistics.

rambo54 wrote:

George1 wrote:

Russian troops receive 16 regiment sets of S-400 air defense missile systems over 5 years

Russia’s air units and military formations have been annually receiving over 200 advanced aircraft since 2013

MOSCOW, November 7. /TASS/. Russia has rearmed 16 air defense missile regiments with advanced S-400 surface-to-air missile complexes over the past five years, Chief of General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov said on Tuesday.

"Over the past five years, 16 air defense missile regiments have been rearmed with the S-400 surface-to-air missile complex. This system detects and destroys targets at a distance that exceeds by more than two times the capabilities of the latest Patriot modifications operational in NATO countries while the S-400 deployment time is five times less compared to its US variant," the general said at a board meeting of Russia’s Defense Ministry.

More:
http://tass.com/defense/974464

He obviously count the 1533rd as S-400 unit although they are not equipped with the system until the years end.
511th & 12th RGT will not be equipped until Feb 2018.
So the actual count should be 15 RGT.

Western Military District (10 RGT)
(4 th Aerospace Defence Division)
Moscow: 3 RGTs
• 210 AD RGT Dubrovki (5P85T2 TELs)
2 sites with 2 Battalions
• 93 AD RGT Svenigorod (5P85S2 TELs)
2 sites with 2 Battalions
• 584 AD RGT Selenograd (5P85S2 TELs)
1 site with 1 batt
(5 th Aerospace Defence Division)
Moscow: 2 RGTs
• 606 AD RGt Elektrostal (5P85S2 TELs)
2 sites wit 2 Battalions
• 549 AD RGT Podolsk (5P85S2 TELs)
2 sites with 2 Battalions
(detachment of 2x4 launchers in Syria?)
(44th  Air Defence Division)
Kaliningrad: 1 RGT
• 183 AD RGT Kaliningrad (5P85T2 & S2 TELs)
4 sites with 4 batt
Jantarny: 1 site with 1 Batt (with 6 S2 TELs)
Dorozhnoye: 1 site with 1 Batt (with 6 S2 TELs)
Baltysk: 1 site with 1 Batt (with 6 T2 TELs)
Baltiyskoye: 1 site with 1 Batt (with 6 T2 TELs)
(1 th Aerospace Defence Brigade)
Murmansk: 1 RGT
• 531 AD RGT (5P85S2 TELs)
2 sites with 2 batts
Severodvinsk: 1 RGT
• 1528 AD RGT
2 sites with 2 batts
(18th Air Defence Division )
St.Petersburg: 2 RGT
• 500 AD RGT
2 sites with 2 batts
• 1488 AD RGT
2 sites with 2 batts


Eastern Military District (2 RGT)
(93rd  Air Defence Division)
• 589 AD RGT Nachodka (5P85S2 TELs)
2 sites with 2 Battalions
(53rd  Air Defence Division)
Kamchatka: 1 RGT
• 1532 AD RGT Petropavlovsk -Rybachi (5P85S2 TELs)
3 sites with 3 battalions

Southern Military District (2 RGT)
(51th  Air Defence Division)
Novorossisk: 1 RGT
• 1537 AD RGT Novorossisk (5P85S2 TELs)
2 sites with 2 Battalions
(31st  Air Defence Division)
Crimea: 1RGT
• 18 AD RGT Crimea/Feodossia (5P85S2 TELs)
1 site at Feodossia with 1 batt

Central Military District (1 RGT)
(41th  Air Defence Division)
Novosibirsk: 1 RGT
• 590 AD RGT Novosibirsk (5P85S2 TELs)
2 sites with 2 Battalions

The news talk about "16 regiments in last 5 years" this is from 2013 to 2017 both included, but before , between 2009 and  2012 other 4 regiments were deployed.
To count 16 in last 5 years , is supposing the 3 of this year , waiting for other
Of course the regiments are forming and the situation of combat ready will be later, but the hardware is handed over
Also ,   the regiments of Moscow Spacial Purpose Command dont belong to the Wester Military District , Moscow SPC is a different command

This year , the destination of the sets handed over are:
https://bmpd.livejournal.com/2914426.html
It is known that the first regiment kit of the S-400 missile system under the state defense order of 2017 was placed in the 511th (Engels) of the 76th Air Defense División
The second set of S-400 SAM under the state defense order of 2017 was delivered to the 12th  (Sevastopol) of the 31st air defense división

So far, there have been no reports as to which units will be delivered to the third consignment of the S-400 SAM on the state defense order of 2017, according to unofficial information....will go to the 1st Air Defense Division of the 45th Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Northern Fleet and the fourth  to the 1533rd ???? (stationed in Vladivostok) of the 93d Air Defense División

There are also reports of plans for the delivery in 2017 of at least one additional S-400 SAM battalion to the 18th (Feodosia) of the 31st Air Defense Division of the 4th Red Banner Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Military District which already has two S-400 SAM battalions since 2016)

In total, since the beginning of serial deliveries of S-400 (40P6) SAM systems, 19 regiment complete sets have been supplied to the Air Force and Air Defense of Russia - one in 2011, two in 2012 and 2013, three in 2014 and 2015 years, five in 2016, and three already - in 2017. In addition, the pre-production set S-400 of the two-division structure was delivered in 2007-2009 to the 606th anti-aircraft missile regiment in Elektrostal (Moscow region), in 2015 one of the divisions of this set of the 606th regiment was transferred for training purposes in The 11th training center for anti-aircraft missile troops of the VKS (Gatchina, Leningrad region), and in return the regiment received a two-divisional S-400 SAM package for a new delivery of 2015


Abouth the third set of 2017 , the only regiment without S-400 in the North Fleet is the 583º (Severomorsk) , could be the destination
Abouth the fourth set of 2017 in the 93 Div, both regiments , 589º and 1533º have already S-400 , other set of 2 Battalions could be for get regiments of 3 battalions , as the third posible battalion for the 18º
It is also strange that bmpd mentions that the training battalon will be in Galtchina, on the outskirts of Leningrad, where there is only a military institute and the satellite does not show facilities of missile troops.
The firing range of VKS is at Ashuluk, where the 42º SAM training regiment already has an S-300 battalion


By year of delivery:
2009: 606º (One battalion sent to training center in 2016)
2011: 210º
2012: 93º , 589º
2013: 183º , 1537º
2014: 549º , 531º , 1532º
2015: 590º , 500º , 1533º
2016: 18º , 1488º , 584º , 606º , 1528º
2017: 511º , 12º , 583º ??? , ????

Then the deployment is:

1st ARMY PVOiPRO MOSCOW SPECIAL PURPOSE COMMAND
-4ºDIV:
• 93rd (Funkovo) x2 Battalions
• 210th (Dubrovka) x2 Battalions
• 584th (Marino-Solnechnogosk) x2 Battalions
-5ºDIV:
• 549th (Podolsk) x2 Battalions
• 606th (Elektrostal)  x3 Battalions

45th ARMY VVSiPVO of NORTH JSC  (Joint Strategic Comand)
-1ºDIV:
• 531st (Poliarny) x2 Battalions
• 1528th (Severovdinsk) x2 Battalions
• 583th ???? (Severomorsk) x2 Battalions  

BALTIC FLEET
-44ºDIV:
• 183rd (Gvardeysk/Kaliningrad Oblast) x2 Battalions  

6º ARMY VVSiPVO
-18ºDIV:
• 500th (Lomosonov) x2 Battalions
• 1488th (Zelenogorsk) x2 Battalions

4º ARMY VVSiPVO
-51ºDIV:
• 1537th (Novorossiysk) x2 Battalions
-31ºDIV:
• 18th (Feodosia) x2 Battalions
• 12th (Sevastopol) x2 Battalions

14º ARMY VVSiPVO
-41ºDIV:
• 590th (Novosibirsk) x2 Battalions
- 76ºDIV:
• 511th (Engels) x2 Battalions

11º ARMY VVSiPVO
-93ºDIV:
• 589th (Nakhodka) x2 Battalions
• 1533rd (Vladivostok) x2 Battalions

PACIFIC FLEET
- 53ºDIV:
• 1532nd (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka) x3 Battalions  

•TRAINING CENTER: x1 Battalion  

Totalling 20 sets  with 41 Battalions , deployed in 19 regiments and one training center:  3 North JSC , 3 West MD , 3 South MD , 2 Central MD , 3 East MD , 5 Moscow SPC
With 2 or 3 more battalions in 2017 , by the year end will be 43 or 44 battalions of the 56 planned

franco wrote:Here is the only TO&E of a S400 that I have found on the net;

• Anti-aircraft missile regiment of S-400 consists of:
- Management of the regiment, which includes the command headquarters;
- Automated command post (Battery Management, Department of radar reconnaissance, electromechanical unit where 1 unit of item 55K6E combat control, 1 unit 91N6E detection radar..);
- Group divisions (2-3 anti-aircraft missile division, technical battery);
- Anti-aircraft artillery battalion ZRPK 96K6 "Carapace-C" ( up to 6 units of MB.);
- Radar separation, chemical and biological protection;
- Repair and maintenance companies;
- Company financial security (material support)
- Economic platoon. (supply)

Anti-aircraft missile battalions of S-400 consists of:
- the division of management;
- Electronic battery (Department of command and control, separation of receiving and transmitting devices, separation of radar reconnaissance, where 1 unit 92N6E multifunction control radars, mobile tower 1 unit 40V6M for antenna post 92N6E, 1 unit 96L6E all-altitude radar...);
- Starting battery (3-4 units 5P85TE2 launchers.); Usually 2 but maybe 3-4.
- Electromechanical compartment;
- Automotive platoon;
- Liaison offices;
- Separation of survey;
- Branch of logistics.

SO if India is buying 5 regiment ........ How many SAM batteries per regiment and how many reloads ?

Austin wrote:

franco wrote:Here is the only TO&E of a S400 that I have found on the net;

• Anti-aircraft missile regiment of S-400 consists of:  
- Management of the regiment, which includes the command headquarters;
- Automated command post (Battery Management, Department of radar reconnaissance, electromechanical unit where 1 unit of item 55K6E combat control, 1 unit 91N6E detection radar..);
- Group divisions (2-3 anti-aircraft missile division, technical battery);
- Anti-aircraft artillery battalion ZRPK 96K6 "Carapace-C" ( up to 6 units of MB.);
- Radar separation, chemical and biological protection;
- Repair and maintenance companies;
- Company financial security (material support)
- Economic platoon. (supply)

Anti-aircraft missile battalions of S-400 consists of:
- the division of management;
- Electronic battery (Department of command and control, separation of receiving and transmitting devices, separation of radar reconnaissance, where 1 unit 92N6E multifunction control radars, mobile tower 1 unit 40V6M for antenna post 92N6E, 1 unit 96L6E all-altitude radar...);
- Starting battery (3-4 units 5P85TE2 launchers.); Usually 2 but maybe 3-4.
- Electromechanical compartment;
- Automotive platoon;
- Liaison offices;
- Separation of survey;
- Branch of logistics.  

SO if India is buying 5 regiment ........ How many SAM batteries per regiment and how many reloads ?

System is flexible and can be tailored. Most Russian regiments have 2 battalions with 2 batteries of 4 TEL's each for a total of 16 launchers. Each of the launchers have 4 missiles for a total of 64 ready units. Reloads are not stored on a vehicle but on the ground so again that would be flexible. By the look of Sat photos that looks like 2-5 reloads.