Russia deploys Triumph, Iskander missile systems near Feodosiya

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

Recently, eight S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems have been deployed near the Crimean town of Feodosiya. They reinforced the second battalion of the 18th anti-aircraft missile regiment while the first battalion is outfitted with the S-300 PS systems. 

Triumph systems have a range of 400 kilometers, capable of hitting targets within airspace above parts of the Kherson, Zaporozhye and Donbas regions. Previously, the Iskander tactical missile systems, which have a range of 500 kilometers, were stationed in the St. Elijah Cape near Feodosiya. They can hit ground targets in Romania. 

Overall, Russian troop strength is forecast to reach 43,000 in Crimea by 2025. The number of armored vehicles and submarines that the Russian Black Sea Fleet has in service there today is what it was during Soviet times.

The purpose of Russia is to convert Crimea into a strategic military base, capable of challenging successfully the old and faulty NATO. In fact, the Russian peninsula is outfitted with the latest weaponry, including Pantsir air-defense missile systems and Bastion antiship missile complexes.

Politologist Paul Craig Roberts wrote that to perpetuate American hegemony, power-crazed fanatical neoconservatives threw away the guarantees, which Washington gave Moscow, that NATO (essentially the United States) would not move one inch to the East. As Russian President Vladimir Putin once put it, Moscow has nonstandard solutions up her sleeve and no one will succeed in winning military superiority over Russia.