Pantsir missile/gun AD system: #2

St. Petersburg will close the mobile anti-aircraft dome

A new regiment equipped with Pantsir-S complexes will appear in the northwest of Russia

The Leningrad Region and St. Petersburg will be reliably protected from cruise missiles and drones. A unique mobile air defense regiment was created in the 6th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense. The new military unit is fully armed with Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and cannon systems. Units can move into a given area in a matter of hours and reliably cover it from air strikes. "Armor" will cope not only with traditional airplanes and helicopters, but also with unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as with cruise missiles. According to experts, the formation of the regiment is an asymmetric response to the strengthening of NATO in the Baltic States - in particular, to the deployment of attack drones and long-range air-launched missiles there.
High mobility and compactness

The formation of the unit was completed at the end of last year, sources in the defense department told Izvestia. It is subordinate to the 6th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District and will become its mobile reserve, constantly ready to advance to the threatened direction on its own or with the help of aviation.

With the help of modified Russian air defense missile systems, missile interceptors will be protected

Regiments equipped with "Armor" are a new phenomenon for Russian air defense. The high mobility and compactness of the wheeled chassis make it possible to quickly transfer them to targets that are expected to be hit by the enemy. As Izvestia previously reported, the Ministry of Defense decided to include such a unit in each army of the Air Force and Air Defense.

The first experimental mobile regiment equipped with "Shells" was created as part of the 1st Army of the Special Purpose Air Defense and Missile Defense near Moscow at the end of 2018. The following year, it was reported that he was conducting the first practice shooting at the Ashuluk range in the Astrakhan region. The head of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the 14th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Central Military District, Colonel Gennady Shlag, also announced plans to form a similar unit in the Urals.

According to the Ministry of Defense, by the end of 2020, the troops had already received more than 200 Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun systems (ZRPK). All of them are directed to the VKS. Previously, they were distributed one division at a time per S-400 Triumph regiment to cover long-range systems from air and ground threats. Separate units with ZRPK were not formed.

- St. Petersburg is the second most important city in Russia, located close to the border. There are many important military and economic facilities there, ”the military expert Vasily Kashin told Izvestia. “And a modern air defense system that allows intercepting cruise missiles and drones is urgently needed there. Suffice it to recall the atomic energy enterprises. Serious protection is needed there. "Shell" with intelligence: the complex will be able to repel attacks without an operator. The new automated control system for anti-aircraft systems itself chooses the optimal battle tactics.

Tensions have risen recently. associated with the expansion of NATO, takes place in the Baltic direction, the specialist noted.

- The countries - partners of the alliance are getting stronger. For example, Sweden, which is not formally a member of the bloc, but closely cooperates with it and has recently sharply increased its military budget, explained Vasily Kashin. - The military infrastructure is coming closer to our borders, its build-up. The United States is building facilities in Norway, Poland and other Eastern European countries. We must take this into account and take measures for our own defense.
Western gain

The North-West and North directions must also be strengthened because the trajectories of ballistic missiles pass through the Arctic, ex-Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Ordzhonikidze told Izvestia. He noted that a difficult situation has been developing in the Baltic region recently.

“The forces of Poland, Germany and other European countries are based in the Baltic,” noted Sergei Ordzhonikidze. “Let's not forget that it is not the United States that is opposing us, but NATO forces. The bloc's military contingents are stationed near the Russian borders. If you add up their potential, you see a tremendous superiority. What, it would seem, to do near our borders the Americans, the British, the Germans? Of course, these are not millions of armies, as it was before the First World War. But if there are military men from non-neighboring countries at your borders, this naturally causes tension. And not only in army circles, but also in society.
Controlled shield: automated system to cover western Russia
It will include fighters, anti-aircraft missile systems and radar

In this region, in recent years, Poland has taken a course of rapidly increasing its air defense capabilities. In 2020, the country's authorities announced the signing of documents for the purchase of 32 F-35A fighters from the United States. The life cycle contract will cost $ 4.6 billion. The start of deliveries is scheduled for 2024. Now the country's Air Force is equipped with three dozen MiG-29s and fifty light F-16s received from the United States, as well as a small number of Su-22 shock units.

The US State Department has already announced that the receipt of fifth generation fighters will be a "quantum leap" for Poland in combat capabilities. They will have to replace obsolete Soviet-era aircraft. High-precision long-range weapons continue to be purchased for them.

Earlier, Poland ordered a batch of modern AGM-158 air-launched cruise missiles from the United States to equip F-16 fighters. Depending on the modification, the range of the ammunition ranges from 370 to 1000 km, which allows keeping at gunpoint not only the Kaliningrad region, but also the north-west of Russia.
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The mobile air defense connection will receive the latest medium-range missile systems

The presence of aircraft of the North Atlantic Alliance also increased in the Baltic States. In 2014, a second airbase was opened there to accommodate the aircraft of the NATO Baltic air patrol mission. In these states, which do not have their own aviation, taking into account rotation, a squadron of one of the bloc's countries is constantly located. It is this unit that most often appears in the news about the interception of Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea.

Parts of the 6th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District are located on the territory of 26 subjects of the Central and Northwestern Federal Districts of our country. Its planes and helicopters are based at 11 aerodromes. The formation includes two air defense divisions.

The army's area of ​​responsibility includes St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, as well as distant approaches to Moscow. If necessary, it can provide military assistance to Belarus, with which Russia signed an agreement on the Unified Regional Air Defense System.

They ought to be careful. Belenko's (press S to spit) defection with the Mig-25 gave us the excellent MiG-31. If anything excuses such as these are what the Russian SAM designers need to keep churning out even better products despite the significant overmatch their current lineups have over the competition.

American military commander named the number of Bayraktars destroyed by the Russian Shell in Libya

In the spring-summer of 2020, Turkish media enthusiastically described the destruction of "dozens" of Pantsir-C1 air defense missile systems in Libya. However, the American military commander Jeff Jaworski found out the true state of affairs and named both the number of irretrievably lost air defense missile systems and the number of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 reconnaissance drones destroyed by a Russian-made air defense system.

According to a journalist from the United States, he conducted a thorough investigation, including using information from the Pentagon. As a result, he found that Ankara greatly exaggerated its successes and spoke extremely modestly, and even sparingly, about its losses. But an impartial journalist calculated that the Turks destroyed 9 units of these air defense missile systems, which were under the control of Arab operators.

In Libya, Pantsir-C1 personnel acted more efficiently than in Syria, they already knew the tactics of Bayraktar attacks

- the meticulous journalist drew attention.

According to him, 47 units of Bayraktar TB2 were shot down in Libya by "Shells", and now these UAVs no longer seem so invincible. The American also studied the financial side of the issue. 9 air defense missile systems cost $ 118 million, and 47 UAVs - $ 245 million.

We remind you that another civil war in Libya began in the spring of 2014. On the one side of the confrontation is the country's official parliament (sits in the east in Benghazi) and its Libyan National Army, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, and on the other, the Libyan National Accord Government (sits in the west in Tripoli), consisting of Islamists and supported by the UN and Turkey ...

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