Russia: Anti-Aircraft Gunners Deploy S-400 Missile Launchers in Volga, Urals and Siberia Drills

The teams of S-300 ‘Favorit’ and S-400 ‘Triumf’ surface-to-air missile systems of Russia’s Central Military District assumed combat positions in new areas during large-scale maneuvers in seven Russian regions in the Volga area, the Urals, Siberia and southern Russia, the District’s press office reported on Thursday. The drills were held in the Samara, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk Regions and the Republic of Khakassia, the press office specified. “The personnel of air defense units and formations stationed on the territory of seven Russian regions conducted marches to new positioning areas of their combat alert, equipped basic, reserve and dummy…