Air defence regiment in Polyarny
The Russian television channel Zvezda News has visited one of Russia’s largest air defence units in the closed military town of Polyarny, the Northern Fleet’s largest submarine base, and provides unique video material.
The regiment is equipped with the long range surface-to-air missile systems S-300, SA-10 in NATO reporting name. The S-300 system was developed in the late 1980’s, but has still got unique capacities. The missile can hit targets moving at up to 10 000 km/h, including ballistic missiles moving at the stratospheric border. The command wagon is like a bunker – it is self-supporting with air, water and electricity and gives protection from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Aiming, firing and movement to another position is done on less than half an hour.
Commander of the division, Lieutenant Colonel Nikolay Markovkin tells Zvezda News that the division’s main task is to protect the Northern Fleet’s bases and vessels. The fleet’s main base Severomorsk is located only some tens of kilometers away.
The air defence regiment in Polyarny has an excellent geographical location – close to the border with Norway and NATO.
See material from Zvezda News.
