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Russian Navy planning to fit its vessels with naval versions of Pantsir and TOR air defense systems

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Naval Forces News - Russia
 
 
 
Russian Navy planning to fit its vessels with naval versions of Pantsir and TOR air defense systems
 
According to industry sources, naval variants of the Pantsir and TOR-M2 short-range air defense systems will enter service with the Russian Navy in about two years. “The Defense Ministry showed great interest in the naval variant of the Pantsir. It has been decided that several destroyers and other large warships will be modernized to accommodate the system,” said Dmitry Konoplev, managing director of the KBP Instrument Design Bureau.
     
According to industry sources, naval variants of the Pantsir and TOR-M2 short-range air defense systems should enter service with the Russian Navy in about two years. “The Defense Ministry showed great interest in the naval variant of the Pantsir. It has been decided that several destroyers and other large warships will be modernized to accommodate the system,” said Dmitry Konoplev, managing director of the KBP Instrument Design Bureau.
Russian-made air defence missile system Pantsir-S1 at defence exhibition in Moscow.
     
The Pantsir-S1, produced by Russia's KBP Instrument Design Bureau, is a gun-missile system combining a wheeled vehicle mounting a fire-control radar and electro-optical sensor, two 30-mm cannons and up to 12 57E6 radio-command guided short-range missiles, and is designed to take on a variety of targets flying at low altitudes.

Link to Pantsir-S1 technical datasheet
     
According to industry sources, naval variants of the Pantsir and TOR-M2 short-range air defense systems should enter service with the Russian Navy in about two years. “The Defense Ministry showed great interest in the naval variant of the Pantsir. It has been decided that several destroyers and other large warships will be modernized to accommodate the system,” said Dmitry Konoplev, managing director of the KBP Instrument Design Bureau. Naval version of Tor-M2 as shown by Almaz-Antey during IMDS 2013 naval defence exhibition
     
During IMDS 2013 naval defence exhibition held recently in St Petersburg, Navy Recognition learned that Russian Defense Company Almaz-Antey is also working on a naval version of its Tor-M2 short-range air defense missile system with tests to begin in the next couple of years.

The land based Tor-M2 / M2E is designed to attack aircraft, helicopters, aerodynamic UAVs, guided missiles and other components of high precision weapons flying at medium, low and extremely low altitudes in adverse air and jamming environment.

Link to TOR-M2 technical datasheet
     
According to industry sources, naval variants of the Pantsir and TOR-M2 short-range air defense systems should enter service with the Russian Navy in about two years. “The Defense Ministry showed great interest in the naval variant of the Pantsir. It has been decided that several destroyers and other large warships will be modernized to accommodate the system,” said Dmitry Konoplev, managing director of the KBP Instrument Design Bureau. Naval version of Tor-M2 as shown by Almaz-Antey during IMDS 2013 naval defence exhibition