Oopsie! And What Do We See Here?

Of course, Tor-M2 at Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. And what does it mean? It means that this system, most likely, is already delivered to Syrians.   

Blogger Ecoross delivered a wonderful photo review of the base and its people. 

To remind about those Tors (namely M2KM), here is what was done to them in 2017. Here is the video, again. 

"Rumor" has it that these systems are capable of shooting targets while moving across complex terrain. They are also honed precisely against all kinds of stand-off  and stand-offish munitions, from TLAMs to all other kinds of HARMs. Rumor has it that Israeli Air Force's recent foray into Syria was against Iranian Tor which was about to go "on-line". 

Here is another Terminatorish (musically)  video of TOR-M2KM:

This Is Rather Interesting.

A trials of a new modification of a venerable Tor, Tor-M2MKM,  air defense system by means of placing a ground based system...on board of Admiral Grigorovich. Ship's speed: 7 knots, sea state 1-2. Two targets: one "aircraft" at 1000 meters, another sea-skimmer with Harpoon's properties. You can see this rather interesting operation here:

The navalized version of Tor is Kinzhal (a dagger), so, as media sources state, this whole thing with "navalization" is means to an end of a complete cross-service unification of such air defense systems. I can only speculate how this could be done but I don't want to. Make your own conclusions. It is a very effective short-range (12 kilometers) system which handles over-the-surface targets quite well. Upgrading Kinzhal on project 1155 (Udaloy-class) Large ASW Ships also seems only natural. Plus there are some other, smaller, ships coming which may use this rather robust air defense capability.