It'll Be Two Times More Efficient: Russia Crafts New Air Defense System

© Sputnik / Vitaliy Ankov / Go to the mediabankThe Pantsir-S1 short range missile and anti-aircraft artillery weapon system is involved in the integrated training on fire control and management of the Far Eastern Military District's Fifth Army at Sergeyevsky base in Primorye Territory. File photo
The Pantsir-S1 short range missile and anti-aircraft artillery weapon system is involved in the integrated training on fire control and management of the Far Eastern Military District's Fifth Army at Sergeyevsky base in Primorye Territory. File photo - Sputnik International
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Russia has created several prototypes of advanced surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery weapon system, the Pantsir-SM.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper cited Alexander Denisov, general director of the Russian company High Precision Complex, as saying that state tests of the country's state-of-the-art air defense system Pantsir-SM are already under way.

He said that research and development work pertaining to the Pantsir-SM is due to be completed in 2019.

Denisov touted the Pantsir-SM a "completely new system" which he said will exceed the previous version, the Pantsir-S1, by up to two times in terms of combat capability.

© Sputnik / Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Go to the mediabankThe Pantsir-S1 short-to-medium range gun-missile system on the march in the Moscow Region. File photo
The Pantsir-S1 short-to-medium range gun-missile system on the march in the Moscow Region. File photo  - Sputnik International
The Pantsir-S1 short-to-medium range gun-missile system on the march in the Moscow Region. File photo

Rossiyskaya Gazeta also cited open sources as saying that the Pantsir-SM is due to be equipped with a new high-speed missile and that the range of detection and destruction of targets will increased by about a half.

The Pantsir-SM is expected to be capable of detecting a target at a distance of 75 kilometers and destroying it at a distance of 40 kilometers.  As for the Pantsir-S1, these figures stand at 40 kilometers and 20 kilometers, respectively.

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As for the Pantsir-SM's new missile, it will have "good" characteristics and can even be used by previous Pantsir versions, according to Denisov.

The Pantsir-S1, codenamed by NATO as SA-22 Greyhound, is a short-to-medium range surface-to-air missile/gun system that first entered service with the Russian army in 2012.

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