YEKATERINBURG. March 2 (Interfax-AVN) - Modernized S-300PM air defense missile systems were put on combat duty in the Irkutsk region on Wednesday, the Central Military District press service reports.
"The modernized and improved S-300PM air defense missile complex has been put on combat duty in the Irkutsk region. The launchers were deployed to the military unit in December 2015. Crews were re-trained in the Leningrad region; they studied the theoretical part and practices for operating the modernized air defense missile complex," the press service told reporters.