Belarus receives Tor-M2 SAMS battery from RF to protect Minsk. PHOTO
Russia has handed over to Belarus a Tor-M2 surface-to-air missile system (SAMS), which will soon provide air cover for Minsk. The SAMS was modified "taking into account the experience of their use in the SMO".
This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Belarus.
According to the Belarusian defence ministry, the systems can simultaneously hit 16 targets operating from any direction at a speed of up to 730 m/s, at a range of up to 12 km and an altitude of up to 10 km, both day and night, in any weather conditions.
They were delivered to Belarus after being modified by Russian designers based on the experience of their use in the war against Ukraine.
"The arrival of the next batch of surface-to-air missile systems is a vivid example of the fruitful military-technical cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation in improving the unified regional air defence system," the Ministry of Defence of Belarus said.
"The next battery of Tor-M2 surface-to-air missile system, which has arrived at one of the air defence brigades of the Belarusian Air Force and Air Defence Forces, will soon be on air defence duty and will provide air defence cover for the city of Minsk," said Major General Andrei Lukyanovich, Commander of the Belarusian Air Force and Air Defence Forces.
