MOSCOW. July 17 (Interfax) - Buk surface-to-air missile systems have been used in an air defense exercise in Russia's Primorye Territory, the press service for the Eastern Military District said on Monday.
"A battalion of the Buk surface-to-air missile systems started tracking hypothetical air targets during the exercise and destroyed them with simulate (electronic) launched as they entered the hitting area of surface-to-air missile systems," the district said in a statement published on the Russian Defense Ministry.
"The surface-to-air missile systems changed positions and marched to a new area. The systems completed an exercise in deployment to a combat position, receiving excellent marks," it said.
"This was a scheduled exercise. Its main purpose is to check readiness to repel an air enemy's attack on military infrastructure facilities," the statement said.
Buk surface-to-air missile systems are medium-range air defense missiles (Almaz-Antey).