Russia's new mobile air defence system revealed
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The Pantsir-SM self-propelled surface-to-air missile (SAM) and anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) system was unveiled to the public for the first time at Army-2019 defence exhibition in Kubinka near Moscow.
Currently in development for the Russian Air and Space Forces (RuASF), it represents a radical upgrade of the Pantsir-S/S1 (SA-22 Greyhound) which entered service with the Russian military in the early 2010s and has been exported to at least five foreign nations.
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