MOSCOW. Oct 19 (Interfax) - The radio-radar troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces have completed exercises in the Astrakhan region.
Crews operating S-300 and S-400 air defense missile systems were involved in the maneuvers at the Ashuluk Range, the Russian Defense Ministry told journalists.
"Major exercises with an air defense unit of the Aerospace Forces have been completed at the Ashuluk Range. Crews of S-300 and S-400 air defense missile systems destroyed targets imitating flying planes, unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles, and ballistic targets, and crews operating Nebo-M, Kasta-2-2, Podlyot, and Protivnik-G radar stations practiced their actions in a new positioning area as part of an air defense group," it said.
During the exercise, units of radio-radar troops went on combat duty to conduct radar reconnaissance within the established boundaries of responsibility. They timely detected all aerial targets and supplied the radar information to S-300 and S-400 missile systems, it said.
"During the exercises, a radio-radar battalion, acting in a complicated jamming environment created by the simulated enemy, detected and tracked over 70 aerial targets across the entire aerospace attack spectrum," it said.
On Thursday, air defense units repelled a massive airstrike by a simulated enemy, whose role was played by crews of Mi-8 helicopters and MiG-29SMT fighter aircraft of the Aerospace Forces' Astrakhan air center. Over 40 missiles were fired and over 20 targets of various types were destroyed during the exercise.