KALININGRAD, February 1. /TASS/. The teams of the Baltic Fleet’s Iskander tactical missile systems practiced delivering massive missile strikes against a simulated enemy’s ground targets during combat readiness drills in Russia’s westernmost exclave of the Kaliningrad Region, the Fleet’s press office reported on Wednesday.
"During the drills, the missile troops stealthily advanced to the designated deployment area, equipped launch sites and conducted electronic sole and multiple launches against the targets simulating the enemy’s missile launchers, airfields, shielded facilities and command posts," the press office said in a statement.
After conducting the electronic missile launches, the Iskander teams exercised to change their launch sites to escape a potential enemy retaliatory strike, the press office said.
The military command of the missile formation participating in the maneuvers also practiced stealth command and control of the designated troops from mobile command posts. In addition, the Iskander missile squads operated amid simulated terrain radiation and chemical contamination and exercised to repel an attack by adversary subversive and reconnaissance groups. For this purpose, they employed a special drone to ferret out terrain in order to change launch sites and uncover the simulated enemy’s camouflaged subversive groups, it said.
"The combat training exercise involved about 50 personnel and around 10 pieces of military and special hardware," the statement reads.
Iskander missile system
The Iskander theater missile system is designed to stealthily gear up for and deliver effective missile strikes against key enemy targets. The system’s high accuracy of fire at long ranges, its short readiness time and high efficiency of breaching adversary anti-ballistic missile defenses enables the Iskander to promptly strike any designated targets by one self-propelled launcher in a single launch or a salvo launch of two missiles.
The Iskander is a precision weapon with an operating range of 500 km. The missile’s warhead is capable of eradicating practically any target: enemy command posts, missile systems and multiple rocket launchers, long-range artillery, military convoys, communication hubs, air defense systems, and also fixed-and rotary-wing aircraft at airfields.
The Iskander theater missile system can employ both ballistic and cruise missiles that generate deception electronic interference in their final flight path and are invulnerable to enemy air defenses. A cruise missile can fly at ultralow altitudes and follow terrain features, while remaining unseen by enemy air defenses.