Antiaircraft defense of the Crimea will be reinforced battalion of anti-aircraft missile and gun systems “C1 Carapace”, said commander 4 Army Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Military District Viktor Sevostyanov.
he explained, that all the anti-aircraft missile regiments now, having a dislocation in Crimea, It has rearmed in the S-400 “triumph”, which already are on combat duty to provide cover for the peninsula and the ships of the Russian Navy, facing the sea. To cover the S-400, and in the future to integrate into a common air defense system, Crimea is expected to supply a further division ZRPK “C1-shell” in an amount of 12 to 18 combat vehicles.
IRC "Carapace-C1" - is a universal means of combating air targets, having speeds up to 1000 m / s, at a distance from the 200 to 20 thousand meters. The complex can destroy targets, flying at an altitude of 5 meters to 15 thousand meters. It can also deal with light armored enemy vehicles and manpower, designed for short-range covering civil and military installations from all current and future air threats in any weather and climatic conditions and electronic day and night. The complex also may provide protection defended object from ground and surface threats.
earlier it was reported, that this complex is being upgraded, in the course of which will get a new super-power antenna and a new generation of missiles.
