It became known that more than 30 Russian Pantsir-S air defense missile systems were transferred to Syria.

Russia has flown to Syria a tremendous amount of its air defense systems capable of repulsing a massive missile strike from several hundred cruise or ballistic missiles. According to Sergey Khatylev, we are talking about more than 30 ZRPK "Shell-S", which are able to close the airspace over an area of ​​about 10 thousand square meters. kilometers.

“To date, [in service with the Syrian Arab army] there are more than 30-x anti-aircraft missile-cannon systems (ZRPK)“ Pantsir-S ”. Produces their PBC Tula. These are missile weapons and cannon weapons. The peculiarity of this complex is that it is a modern weapon ”- quoted the words of Khatylev, the Russian news agency Politics Today.

For obvious reasons, the exact amount of air defense equipment sent by the Russian military to Syria was not disclosed, however, it significantly exceeds the number of those air defense systems that were on the territory of the Arab Republic last year.

The purpose of Russia’s deployment of a large number of Pantsir-S air defense missile systems to the SAR is unknown, however, according to analysts, Russia may well close airspace over most of Syria.