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Upgraded Buk-M3 air defense system @Russia MoD
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that its upgraded Buk-M3 (export version- Viking) multi-missile medium-range air defense missile system (ADMS) which entered service with an anti-aircraft missile formation in the Altai region in Siberia, has five times more combat capabilities without increasing the number of military personnel.
“The fire capabilities of the brigade have increased so significantly due to the increased number of target channels, and the maximum range of destruction of air targets has more than doubled, and this, in turn, allows to more effectively cover a command post, formations and military units of the combined arms formation from enemy s air attack weapons, his precision weapons, as well as to protect the objects of military and industrial infrastructure of several Siberian regions,”said the commander of the Central Military District, Lieutenant General Sergei Ryzhkov, quoted by the MoD