Russian Air Defense Today...
... everyone should read this:

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B8JEdtKWzL0WN2EzYTdhODQtMGMxZS00MWUwLTgxNjUtOTkwMjk3YmE5MTMz

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Strongest Air Defense of the world is still around Moscow...
21pcs S-300PM Volhov-M6M (SA-20A)
1pcs S-400 Triumph (SA-21)

Quite interesting to see the change of the air defense in the last 20 years...

End of the Cold War:
372pcs S-75M Volhov (SA-2E)
52pcs S-125M Neva (SA-3B)
84pcs S-200V/D Vega/Dubna (SA-5B/C)
101pcs S-300PT/PS Biryusa/Volhov-M6 (SA-10A/B)

Current OOB:
1pcs S-200D Dubna (SA-5C) [In Kaliningrad, till the new S-400 Triumph (SA-21) arrives]
5pcs S-300PT Biryusa (SA-10A)
33pcs S-300PS Volhov-M6 (SA-10B)
29pcs S-300PM Volhov-M6M (SA-20A)
1pcs S-400 Triumph (SA-21)


The development is unmissable...
... at the end of the Cold War, 609pcs SAM systems were fielded with 1114 firing channels, defending 225 thousand square kilometers.

Currently 69pcs(!!!) SAM systems are fielded with 409 firing channels, defending 671 thousand square kilometers!!!

Last edited by Hpasp; 11/05/11 06:36 PM.
Hpasp
Free SAM Simulator, "Realistic to the Switch"
(U-2 over Sverdlovsk, B-52's over Hanoi, F-4 Phantoms over the Sinai, F-16's and the F-117A Stealth bomber over the Balkans.)
http://sites.google.com/site/samsimulator1972/home

Book from the author - Soviet Nuclear Weapons in Hungary 1961-1991
https://sites.google.com/view/nuclear-weapons-in-hungary/
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