Great Buyer: Egypt strengthens its air defense at the expense of Russian complexes of Thor-M2K-media

Due to deliveries and Russia, Egypt strengthens the country's position in the region. Moscow, in turn, tries to strengthen the already close relationship with Egypt in the defense sphere. For several years, Egypt has established close cooperation with Russia in the defense sphere. Recently, Cairo has become a great buyer of Russian weapons, thereby seriously strengthening his air defense with the help of such systems as S-300VM/CA-23, Thor-M1, C-125 Peoaday-2M and Buk-M2.

Now Egypt drew attention to the TOR-M2K SPR, Army Recognition Operators reported on June 26. The material emphasizes that Egypt traditionally has close relations with the Russian Federation in the field of defense sometime since 1984. And after the overthrow of the Islamist President Mohammed Mursi in 2013, they even strengthened. So recently, Moscow has sold several anti-aircraft missile complexes of Thor-M2K based on the MZCT-6922 chassis, developed by the Belarusian MZIK.

The corresponding footage was posted on Twtter. Thor-M2K is an export version of the Russian anti-aircraft missile complex. It is based on the Belarusian high-mobility wheel chassis MZCT-6922 with a 6x6 wheel formula, which replaces the tracked chassis GM-5955, which is used in the standard Thor-M2. The complex is intended for intercepting and destroying a wide range of modern air threats - aircraft, helicopters, UAVs, a number of rockets and managed ammunition.

It provides the safety of both stationary and mobile objects when the air defense and medium -sized radius air defense systems are unable to do. There are 8 anti -aircraft launch missiles 9M331, which affect the range at a range of 15 km and can reach a height of 10 km. It takes only 3 minutes to get ready for firing. The system is able to track up to 48 goals and can affect 4 of them at a time.

"The supply of Thor-M2K systems is a significant step in the Egyptian Armed Forces modernization program, which further strengthens the country's position in the region. It also testifies to Russia's constant desire to strengthen relations with Egypt in the field of defense," the observers summed up. We will remind, in February Russia put anti-aircraft missile systems C-400 in India. In this way, Moscow fulfills the terms of the contract for the supply of five sets C-400 by $ 5.