Russia's defense industry enterprise to open S-300, Tor-M1 maintenance centers in China

ZHUHAI, China November 12. /TASS/. The joint stock company Almaz-Antey has plans to open maintenance centres in China for servicing the air defence complexes Tor-M1 and S-300, the concern’s deputy director for military-technical cooperation and foreign economic activity, Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, told the media on Wednesday. He said Almaz-Antey had offered China several options of upgrading the previously supplied Tor-M1 complexes (27 units). “Also, we addressed the Chinese clients with an offer to open maintenance centres to service these systems, to provide Russian equipment and to train Chinese personnel,” Dzirkaln said. “The teams of Russian specialists will help China arrange for the maintenance of air defence systems at the yet-to-be created centres,” he said. Read more