Russia shows off new surface-to-air missile
system along Arctic border to Norway
Five powerful belt
wagons equipped with the Tor-M2DT system this week plowed the snow-covered
stretches of Pechenga.
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February 10, 2022
The
200th Motorized Rifle Brigade might have sent a big number of tanks
and armoured vehicles to areas near Ukraine. But there is plenty of hardware
left in the Russian border areas to Norway and Finland.
This
week, the brigade located in the Pechenga Valley took its new cruise missile
division out on display. Five vehicles with the Tor-M2DT missile-to-air system
took part in an exercise that involved navigation through the Arctic terrain
and setup of the system to combat position, the Northern Fleet informs.
The
training probably took place near Korzunovo, the military settlement located
about 20 km from the border to Norway.
The
Tor-M2DT is a new mobile system that is placed on powerful DT-30PM all-terrain
belt vehicles and can operate in temperatures down to minus 50. The system
was officially handed over the
units in the Pechenga in late 2019.
The first units of the Tor-M2DT arrived in the Russian-Nordic borderlands in summer 2019 following testing in Novaya Zemlya
The
Tor-M2DT has a range of up to 16 km and is designed to target all kind of
flying objects, including drones and enemy missiles.
The
system was first put on public display during the 2017 9th May military
parade in Moscow.
The Tor-M2DT is a variant of the Tor system (SA-15 «Gauntlet») that
first was introduced in the late 1980s. It is reportedly capable of
detecting over 40 air targets, and track and engage up to four of them
simultaneously at a range of up to 12 km and altitudes up to 10 km with its 16
missiles even on the move.
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