MOSCOW. Feb 4 (Interfax) - Service members of an anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Leningrad Army of Russia's Air Force and Air Defense Forces have gone on combat duty at a new launching position as part of a tactical exercise, the Western Military District said.
"Upon arriving at the new area, the crews of S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft missile systems went on combat duty to provide air defense of military and government sites," the district said in a statement on Thursday.
The troops also practiced "repealing massive missile and air raids by a simulated enemy with electronic launches of guided anti-aircraft missiles," it said.
The exercise was monitored by the commanders of anti-aircraft missile units and regiments involved in it, who then carried out their detailed review.
The S-400 Triumf, developed and manufactured by Almaz-Antey, is able to destroy strategic and tactical aircraft, ballistic missiles, hypersonic targets, and other means of aerial attack amid radio-electronic and other types of countermeasures. The system can destroy aerodynamic targets at a range of up to 400 kilometers and hit ballistic targets flying at a speed of up to 4.8 kilometers per second at altitudes varying from several meters to several dozen kilometers at a range of 60 kilometers.