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Urgent: Russia to deploy air defense system in Hmeimim airbase, Moskva missile cruiser at "combat duty position"

Xinhua, November 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Wednesday that new generation anti-aircraft missile system S-400 would be deployed in Syrian Hmeimim airbase, where a Russian airforce group for anti-terrorist strikes is located.

Shoigu added that Russia's Moskva guard missile cruiser is ready at new combat duty position near Syria's Latakia "to destroy any potentially dangerous air targets," according to Tass news agency. Endi