Russia Develops Own THAAD-like, GMD-like Missile Defense Systems

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Russia has to respond to creation of missile defense system by U.S. - General Staff - Interfax

January 30, 2015 12:12

Russia has to respond to creation of missile defense system by U.S. - General Staff
MOSCOW. Jan 30 (Interfax-AVN) - The creation by the United States of a missile defense system violates the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and START III Treaty, which makes Russia take measures to respond, General Valery Gerasimov, the head of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said.

"We can't ignore such actions taken by the West and we have to take measures to respond," he said at a meeting of the Defense Ministry collegioum in the National Defense Administration Center on Friday.

Gerasimov said these measures "are aimed primarily at equipping the Russian army and fleet with promising weapons systems that will help neutralize the potential of the U.S. missile defense system and which will have increased capabilities to overcome it."

 

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TASS: Russia - Russia’s Sarmat 100-ton ballistic missile may be test launched in 2016-2017 — source

MOSCOW, January 29. /TASS/. The 100-ton ballistic missile Sarmat may be test launched in one or 1.5 years after its drop tests that are planned for 2015, a Russian defense industry source told TASS on Thursday.
"If everything goes according to plan during the drop tests, if they pass successfully, then in a year or 1.5 years the missile will be test launched," the source said.

According to the source, the drop tests check the missile’s separate stages. "This is done on a special stand to check the missile’s lift capacity," he said. "It’s difficult to speak of the timeframe now, but it is usually done at the end of the year," he added.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov said that drop tests of the Sarmat missile had been planned for this year, and Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Sergey Karakayev said the missile was to be commissioned in the army by 2020.

Sarmat’s characteristics are unknown, it is only known that the missile is to replace the world’s largest strategic missile Voyevoda (NATO reporting name - Satan). According to Borisov, the new rocker’s destructive payload will reach 10 tons.

 

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TASS: Russia - Russia’s Sarmat 100-ton ballistic missile may be test launched in 2016-2017 — source

MOSCOW, January 29. /TASS/. The 100-ton ballistic missile Sarmat may be test launched in one or 1.5 years after its drop tests that are planned for 2015, a Russian defense industry source told TASS on Thursday.
"If everything goes according to plan during the drop tests, if they pass successfully, then in a year or 1.5 years the missile will be test launched," the source said.

According to the source, the drop tests check the missile’s separate stages. "This is done on a special stand to check the missile’s lift capacity," he said. "It’s difficult to speak of the timeframe now, but it is usually done at the end of the year," he added.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov said that drop tests of the Sarmat missile had been planned for this year, and Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Sergey Karakayev said the missile was to be commissioned in the army by 2020.

Sarmat’s characteristics are unknown, it is only known that the missile is to replace the world’s largest strategic missile Voyevoda (NATO reporting name - Satan). According to Borisov, the new rocker’s destructive payload will reach 10 tons.

 

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TASS: Russia - Topol, Yars ballistic missile launchers on combat patrol in 6 Russian regions

February 04, 16:29 UTC+3
About 700 units of military equipment, including launchers are deployed in the positioning areas in the Tver, Ivanovo, Kirov, Irkutsk regions, as well as in Altai Territory and the Mari El republic

MOSCOW, February 4. /TASS/. The Topol, Topol-M and Yars mobile ballistic missile launchers have been put on combat patrol mission in six Russian regions, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman for Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Colonel Igor Yegorov said on Wednesday.

"The Topol, Topol-M and Yars mobile launchers are drilling combat duty tasks in six regions of the country with extended combat patrolling time. About 700 units of military equipment, including launchers are deployed in the positioning areas in the Tver, Ivanovo, Kirov, Irkutsk regions, as well as in Altai Territory and the Mari El republic," Yegorov said.

According to him, the time of winter combat patrolling has been extended to nearly a month this year. "This means that each missile regiment will spend about 60 days per year on combat patrolling routes," he said.

Topol is a ground-based mobile strategic intercontinental ballistic missile system. The Topol-M ICBM system belongs to the fifth generation of strategic missiles. The three-stage solid-propelled single warhead missile has a silo and mobile version. Yars is a solid-propelled mobile and silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile with multiple warhead.

 

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Russia’s last satellites for identifying ballistic missile launchers cease operation
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February 11, 10:28 UTC+3
The launch of the first satellite Tundra of Russia’s unified space system will take place no earlier than in June, until then, there will be no satellites in Russia's missile warning system

MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. Two last satellites of the Oko program for identifying ballistic missile launchers ceased operating in January, the Kommersant daily wrote on Wednesday.

The launch of the first satellite Tundra of Russia’s unified space system will take place no earlier than in June, the daily said. Until then, there will be no satellites in the space echelon of Russia’s missile warning system.

"Oko-1 was part of Russia’s missile warning system. The system employed six satellites on geostationary and highly elliptical orbits. The last geostationary satellite got out of order in April last year. The two remaining satellites on highly elliptical orbits could operate only several hours a day. In the beginning of January, they also went out of order," Kommersant said.

The new generation early warning satellite Tundra was planned to be launched in 2013. However, the launch was postponed several times as the apparatus was not ready to be put into operation, sources in the aerospace industry told the daily.

In October 2014, Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov said that despite the deterioration of the space echelon of Russia’s missile warning system, Russia "has almost no unprotected territories" thanks to radars. "Today we have a solid information space, we are protected well from all potentially dangerous directions," Borisov noted.

 

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February 12, 14:23 UTC+3
Engineer troops, radiological, chemical and biological defense forces, as well as anti-sabotage units have been engaged in the exercises

MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS/. More than 30 missile regiments of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces took part on Thursday in large-scale exercises in 12 regions of the country, Defense Ministry’s spokesman for the military branch Colonel Igor Yegorov said.

"According to the drill scenario, simulated enemy’s sabotage groups planted mines on the combat patrolling route sections and used toxic agents in the field. Engineer troops, radiological, chemical and biological defense forces, as well as anti-sabotage units have been engaged in the exercises," Yegorov said.

During the maneuvers the troops have used the RKhM-4 chemical reconnaissance vehicles and drones.

 

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TASS: Russia - Prototype of Russia's new 100-ton ballistic missile to be built in May-June — source

February 24, 13:27 UTC+3
The prototype will have precisely the same size and mass as the future combat version

MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/. A prototype of the Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile will be built in May or June, a source in the defense industry has told TASS, adding that up to 30% of components of the new generation 100-ton missile have already been manufactured at the Krasnoyarsk machine-building plant.

"The manufacturer will finalize a prototype of the Sarmat missile in two or three months’ time. The first pop-up test will follow," the source said. If it is successful, no more pop-up tests (checks of the missile’s individual stages) will be made.

"In 2016 the phase of flight tests will begin," he said. The purpose is to check the operation of the powder pressure accumulator and the missile’s operation during liftoff and immediately after it leaves the silo.

"The prototype will have precisely the same size and mass as the future combat version. Instead of a MIRV warhead the prototype will carry a dummy. The booster will not be turned on. Sarmat will rise several dozen meters above the silo to fall nearby," the source said.

On February 21 Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said Sarmat will have several configurations. The warhead will have a mass of ten tons. Its likely flight paths towards potential targets will lie over the North or South pole.

The new-generation liquid propellant ICBM Sarmat is to replace the world’s largest strategic missile R-36M2 Voyevoda, which is close to the life cycle expiration date. Earlier, strategic missile force commander Sergey Karakayev said the strategic missile Sarmat was being developed by a group of defense industry enterprises under the Makeyev State Missile Center.

TASS: Russia - Three Pantsir-S missile systems on test in Russia's Arctic

February 24, 11:01 UTC+3
The modification of the missile system allows operating in condition of extremely low temperatures reaching 50 degrees Celcius below zero

ABU DHABI, February 24. /TASS/. Three Russian Pantsir-S surface-to-air missile sytems are currently being tested in the Arctic, the vice chief of the KBP Instrument Design Bureau Yuri Savenkov said Tuesday.

The official said the modification of the missile system allows operating in condition of extremely low temperatures reaching 50 degrees Celcius below zero.

Savenkov also reminded that a sea-based modification of the system is to appear in 2016.

 

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TASS: Russia - New threats to Russian security emerge in Arctic — defense minister

Late in 2014, the Joint Strategic Command was formed on the basis of the Northern Fleet, he said, adding that the Defense Ministry would build up troops in the Chukotka peninsula to guarantee the Northern Sea Route safety.

"Military troops deployment in Chukotka will make it possible to enhance safety of the Northern Sea Route's traffic and respond timely to potential military threats in the area," the minister said. In 2014, four aerospace defense brigades within the Eastern command were reorganized to air defense divisions; as well as radiation, chemical and biological defense regiments were formed. Radiolocation and air direction centers deployed at the Wrangel Island and Schmidt Peninsula have been operational since October 2014.

In 2014, the Eastern command received cutting edge weapons, including next-generation Su-30CV and Su-35 fighter aircrafts, as well as Ka-52 combat helicopters, Bal coastal missile systems. Russia's submarines of new projects also perform drills in Arctic, he said.

 

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TASS: Russia - Russian army puts into service long-range missile for S-300V4 system — source
March 05, 9:28 UTC+3
First, the S-300B4 systems in the Western military district are to be equipped with these missiles, the source adds

MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. Russia’s military have put into service a long-range missile for the S-300V4 air defense system, a source in the country’s Defense Ministry told TASS on Thursday.

"The missile range reaches 400 kilometers [250 miles]," the source said.

The new missile successfully passed the state tests late last year, he said. First, the S-300V4 systems in the Western military district are to be equipped with these missiles, the source added.

The supplies of S-300V4 systems to Russia’s Ground Forces began only in 2014. The servicemen received two division sets of these systems which are considered to be more efficient than their predecessors by up to 2.5 times.

Late last year, the press service of the Almaz Antey air defense systems manufacturer told TASS the new longer range missiles for the S-300V4 systems were being developed, giving no further details.

 

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MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. The Iskander tactical ballistic missile systems will be redeployed during a surprise inspection of troops to the Kaliningrad region in Russia’s northwest, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry told TASS on Tuesday.

"The redeployment of the fighter and bomber aviation is planned to the Kaliningrad region, and the army grouping in the Baltic region will be reinforced with the Iskander missile systems of the Western Military District that will be moved by the large landing ships of the Baltic Fleet," said the source.

A surprise inspection of the Northern Fleet and separate formations of the Western Military District is being conducted in Russia in the period from March 16 to 21. The snap check involves some 38,000 troops, 3,360 units of military equipment, 41 warships, 15 submarines, 110 warplanes and helicopters.

 

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S-400 Air Defense Regiment Takes Up Duty in Russia's Northwest / Sputnik International

The S-400 Triumph air defense missile system division of the Russian Northern Fleet took up combat duty in country's northwest Murmansk region.


MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The advanced S-400 Triumph air defense missile system division of the Russian Northern Fleet took up combat duty in country's northwest Murmansk region, the Russian Defense Ministry's press service said on Saturday.
Russian Northern Fleet air defense forces, equipped with S-300 and S-400 air defense systems, are tasked with protecting Murmansk region' strategic facilities such as industrial and energy objects, transport communications, stationing bases of defense and fleet forces, the press service said.

The S-400 Triumph long- to medium-range surface-to-air missile system is expected to form the cornerstone of Russian air and missile defense by 2020. It can engage any aerial target, including aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and cruise and ballistic missiles at a distance of up to 400 kilometers (250 miles) and an altitude of up to 30 kilometers (18.6 miles).
The bolstering of Russia's Northern Fleet with S-400 systems comes amid the country's strategy to boost its presence in the Arctic region. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in December, 2014 that Russia is not planning to militarize the Arctic, but is taking necessary measures to ensure a secure defense in the region.

 

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TASS: Russia - Russian forces to practise use of S-300, S-400 against air, missile strikes
March 30, 11:38 UTC+3
The forces involved will be expected to repel a massive air and missile strike and destroy various targets simulating cruise and ballistic missiles, aircraft, and attack and reconnaissance drones

MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. Russian army units from seven regions in Russia’s east will practice the use of S-300 and S-400 air defense systems for repelling potential enemy’s massive missile and air strikes, the chief of the Eastern Military District’s press-service, Colonel Alexander Gordeyev, has said.

"Taking part in the exercise are air defense units, radio-technical forces, means of radio-electronic warfare, and reconnaissance and mechanized infantry troops deployed in Buryatia, Trans-Baikalia, Khabarovsk, the Primorye and Kamchatka territories and the Amur and Sakhalin regions," Gordeyev said.

The forces involved will be expected to repel a massive air and missile strike and destroy various targets simulating cruise and ballistic missiles, aircraft, and attack and reconnaissance drones.

"About 50 various targets will be used simultaneously," Gordeyev said.

The "enemy’ targets will be destroyed with S-300 missile launchers Favorit, S-400 Triumf, Buk, Osa, Tor and Strela-10 complexes, combined rocket and artillery complexes Tunguska and portable rockets Igla and Verba.


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TASS: Russia - Russia's Orenburg Strategic Missile Forces unit undergoes comprehensive check
March 30, 13:05 UTC+3
The strategic missile unit is armed with Topol and Voyevoda missile

MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. The Orenburg branch of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces has begun a comprehensive check-up, the Defense Ministry’s spokesman for Strategic Missile Forces, Igor Yegorov, has told TASS.

"Under the strategic missile force training plan the Orenburg branch under Major-General Anatoly Kulai is to undergo a comprehensive check-up on March 30 through April 11. Strategic Missile Forces commander Colonel-General Sergey Karakayev is in charge," he said.

The main purpose of the exercise is to estimate the real state of affairs and combat readiness and check the commanders’ competence.

"The check-up will encompass the missile army’s control system, including its logistics center. Commanders’ organization skills, the quality of personnel’s combat training, skills and morale, observance of law, order and discipline, firearms handling skills and ability to cope with the tasks set will be scrutinized," Yegorov said.

The exercise is due on March 31 through April 4. Its chief task will be to "perfect performance by the headquarters of all levels and practical skills of the command staff, operative groups and units in view of a threat of a terrorist attack."

The Orenburg strategic missile unit is armed with Topol and Voyevoda missiles.

Russia Begins Large-Scale Air Defense Drills in Siberia / Sputnik International

Large-scale air defense drills have started in Russia's Eastern Military District, according to the Russian Defense Minister's press service.

The Russian Defense Minister's press service reported on Monday that large-scale air defense exercises have got under way in Russia's Eastern Military District.

"The drills are taking place at special firing ranges in the Primorye Territory and Buryatia, where the servicemen will be tasked with destroying about 50 various targets," the press service said.

"To implement the task, the troops will use a spate of the short-range surface-to-air missile systems, such as the Osa, the Tor and the Strela-10. Additionally, the drills will see the Tunguska self-propelled anti-aircraft missile system, the man-portable air defense systems Igla and Verba, as well as the new generation long-range air defense missile systems Triumf and Favorit," the press service said.

It added that during the war games, the troops will, in particular, drill the units in repelling a massive missile and air strike by a simulated enemy.

The press service declined to elaborate on the exact number of servicemen involved in the exercises, but said that they will see the participation of air defense, aviation, radio-radar, electronic warfare, reconnaissance and motor rifle units stationed in Buryatia and the Primorye Territory, as well as the Trans-Baikal, Khabarovsk, Kamchatka, Amur and Sakhalin regions.

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TASS: Russia - Final test launch of Russia's new RS-26 Rubezh ballistic missile successful — designer

March 31, 13:37 UTC+3
The RS-26 Rubezh missile based on the previous RS24 Yars is expected to be put on combat dutiy in 2015.

MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. The final test launch of Russia's solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile RS-26 in mid-March was successful, a senior official at the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology told TASS on Tuesday.

"Yes, the launch was successful," said Vladimir Georgiyevsky, an assistant of the general constructor.

The RS-26 Rubezh missile based on the previous RS24 Yars is expected to be put on combat dutiy in 2015.

A source at the Russian General Staff told TASS earlier that the first missile would be deployed at the Irkutsk missile division in Siberia.

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TASS: Russia - Russian strategic missile force drills involve over 3500 troops
March 31, 13:02 UTC+3
The drills involve 300units of military hardware

MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. More than 3,500 troops and 300 equipment units are involved in maneuvers of the Orenburg missile formation, spokesman for the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Colonel Igor Yegorov told TASS on Tuesday.

"In accordance with the plan of the Strategic Missile Forces’ training in the period from March 31 to April 4, 2015 the Orenburg missile formation units are engaged in manoeuvres under the command of RVSN Commander Colonel General Sergey Karakayev," Yegorov said.

According to him, the troops units will drill urgent field deployment in the conditions of an emergency situation. In addition, radiological, chemical and biological defence units will conduct decontamination of the weapons and equipment in the zone of a terrorist attack with the use of toxic agents.

In became known on Monday that a complex inspection was launched in the Orenburg missile formation that will last until April 11. The maneuvers launched on Tuesday that involve, in particular, the Yasny missile formation in full strength, will become its main part.

The Orenburg strategic missile unit is armed with Topol and Voyevoda missiles.

 

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TASS: Russia - Firing drills featuring hypersonic S-300V4 missile system to be held in Russia’s south
April 03, 14:09 UTC+3
The military drills will also feature Tor-M2U air defense missile systems

MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. The S-300V4 air defense missile systems that can launch hypersonic missiles will be involved in field firing exercises at the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region, Southern Russia, in April-May, head of the tactical air defense Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov told TASS on Friday.

"Air defense specialists of the Ground Forces will conduct field firing exercise using the modern air defense missile systems Tor-M2U and S-300V4 at the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region," he said.

The S-300V4 missile speed is five times higher than the speed of sound and it can hit a target at a distance of 400 km. According to Leonov, the training of specialists for the S-300V4 system was started at the air defense centers in Yeisk and Orenburg in February. The missile system was delivered to the troops at the end of 2014. The training of the Tor-M2U specialists started two years ago.

"The purpose of the upcoming field firing is to check the level of training of specialists and performance of modern anti-aircraft missile complexes and systems," said General Leonov. According to him, the combat crews will conduct firing exercises without missile launches on real aircraft, simulating the potential enemy actions, and then will practice firing on missile targets.

In 2014, the air defence troops of the Russian Ground Forces received two battalion sets of the S-300V4 system and two Tor-M2U sets. At the end of last year, the S-300V4 air defense missile system entered service in the Southern Military District force grouping. The missile complex combats all types of the world’s medium-range missiles ensuring anti-aircraft and missile defense.

 

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TASS: Russia - Russia’s defence ministry tests long-range missile for S-400 ABM systems

April 04, 22:38 UTC+3
MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/. Russia’s Defence Ministry has tested a long-range missile for the S-400 anti-ballistic missile systems, Deputy Commander of the Aerospace Defence Forces Maj Gen Kirill Makarov said on Saturday.

"This air interceptor missile was successfully launched and hit an air target simulator," Makarov said adding that the firing trajectory was less than 400 kilometres as the training area was not large enough for a full-length trajectory of 250 kilometres.

"When the army receives the new missile tested now, the firing trajectory will reach up to 400 kilometres," the general said.