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Russia’s Pacific Fleet Receives Bastion Coastal Defense Missile Systems

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Russia’s Pacific Fleet Receives Bastion Coastal Defense Missile Systems
 
The Russian Pacific Fleet’s missile and artillery brigade has formed a battalion armed with the Bastion (NATO reporting name: SSC-5 Stooge) coastal defense missile system, fleet spokesman Roman Martov said on Friday. The battalion has undergone special training with Russia’s Black Sea Fleet to operate Bastion coastal defense missile systems, the spokesman added.
     
The Russian Pacific Fleet’s missile and artillery brigade has formed a battalion armed with the Bastion (NATO reporting name: SSC-5 Stooge) coastal defense missile system, fleet spokesman Roman Martov said on Friday. The battalion has undergone special training with Russia’s Black Sea Fleet to operate Bastion coastal defense missile systems, the spokesman added.
3K55 Bastion coastal defense missile system
     
"The battalion is currently practicing deploying the new systems in position areas in the Primorye Territory [in Russia’s Far East] as part of their scheduled training," Martov said.

"During the next stage, the crews will hold a live-firing exercise to hit sea targets," he added.

The 3K55 Bastion coastal defense missile system is designed to eliminate single surface ships and vessels within assault units, attack groups and convoys at a distance of up to 300 kilometers (186 miles). The system can also hit ground targets. The Bastion coastal defense missile system is in service with Russia’s Armed Forces. The system has been delivered to Syria and Vietnam.

The Bastion coastal defense missile system was deployed on the Crimean coast in 2014.

In September 2014, the Bastion coastal defense missile system was used to destroy a training target at a range of 90 kilometers (56 miles) in the central part of the Black Sea during maneuvers.

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