Sputnik: Russia Brings S-400 and Pancir Missile Systems to Serbia for Joint Military Exercise

(illustration:Wikipedia/Aleksey Toritsyn)

Russian Military Forces have brought to Serbia a division of S-400 antiaircraft missile systems and a Pancir missile system unit, which is the first time these state-of-the-art systems will be used in an exercise outside Russia, Sputnik news agency reported on Oct 24, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense.

All this is a part of a joint tactical exercise dubbed Slavic Shield 2019, which begun on Oct 24, at the Batajnica military airport and Pasuljanske Livade range, near Cuprija.

Members of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade of Serbian Air Force are participating in the exercise.

The purpose of the exercise is to have the forces of the Serbian Air Defense work alongside their Russian colleagues in ground and air space defense, and to have the command and units practice the preparation for the execution of antiaircraft operations.  

Tiosav Jankovic, the commander of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Army of Serbia, is in charge of overseeing the exercise.