Contents tagged with missile tests

  • Russian Army will soon add a new long-range anti-aircraft missile to its arsenal

    Tests of a new anti-aircraft, guided, long-range missile are underway in Russia, and that it should soon go into service. This was stated by Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, TASS reported.

    "We will also consider how state tests of a long-range guided missile are going," Shoygu said on Russia-24 TV. While speaking about the new long-range missile, as well as the anti-aircraft missile artillery complex for the frigates of the 22350 Project, the Minister noted that "the implementation of these two …

  • Russia deploys anti-ballistic missile systems to Crimea ahead of Ukrainian missile tests

    Ukrainian analytical group InformNapalm reported that Russian S-300VM "Antey-2500" anti-ballistic missile system were spotted in the Crimea. The group states that the appearance of the missile systems in the Crimea is linked to the scheduled missiles tests by Ukraine near the peninsula.

    The systems were transported along one of the Crimean intercity freeways and were headed to an unknown destination.

    The S-300VM "Antey-2500" missile system is intended to strike tactical, theater and medium …

  • Russia warns Kyiv that there will be a military response if Ukraine carries out scheduled missile tests

    The Head of the Russian Federal Agency for CIS Countries and International Humanitarian Cooperation, Konstanin Kosachev, warned Ukraine over conducting the missile tests in “Russian airspace”.

    “If it comes to the point  that we have to use military response, this will, of course, be a most horrible and unpleasant scenario, which all of us have to prevent,“ Kosachev stated at the International Conference of Scientific Research Centers entitled “Crisis of world order, not only a Russian problem . …