Greece and Russia are negotiating maintenance of a number of missile systems and the purchase of new missile systems With-300. Their result is ready to become a new agreement between the defense ministries 2 States.

"Between the Russian Federation and Greece are negotiating maintenance systems s-300, tor-M1", "cornet" and others, and on the purchase of new missiles for s-300 systems," announced the Minister of defense of Greece Panos Kammenos in Moscow, where he arrived for a conference on international security. The civil servant said that it is not about increasing the number of missiles, and the replacement of old and unused new, reports RIA Novosti.

The head of the Greek defense Ministry did not elaborate on what modifications missiles for s-300 is about. It was earlier reported, Russian military used a new missile long range air defense system S-300V4. The range of its flight is 400 km Study supernova weapons involved professionals of the concern PVO "Almaz-Antey".

Commonly anti-aircraft missile system s-300 is capable of hitting all sorts of targets at ranges up to 300 km, depending on the type used parts, namely interceptor missiles. S-300 was created for the defense of large industrial and administrative facilities, military bases and control points from bumps means air-a space attack of the opponent. It is capable of hitting ballistic and aerodynamic purposes.
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