Several countries have opted to buy the stealth killer S-400 Triumf System, also owned by China, Turkey, and India, who got them earlier. Until now, these systems are handled by Russian crews, which are not their units.
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Belarus wants to own the system to boost their defense systems with cutting-edge arms, reported EurAsian Times.
In an interview with Belarusian television station CTV, Dmitry Mikholap, Deputy Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of the Belarusian Armed Forces, announced on July 17 that they would be supplied with an S-400 air defense system in addition to a Mi-35 attack helicopter, noted TASS.
Belarus' president, Alexander Lukashenko, asserted in May that Minsk had acquired the Iskander and S-400 air defense systems from Moscow, per Belta.
The President of Belarus also made a statement, saying that he had reached a deal with Putin to purchase as many S-400 and Iskander missile systems as required to arm the army.
The army has completely changed thanks to such weaponry. It can at least cause enormous, catastrophic damage. Near the state border of Belarus, unmanned aerial vehicle flights, including combat and surveillance missions, have been spotted.
According to Mikholap, the country's armed forces routinely claimed to be monitoring combat and reconnaissance flights of unmanned aerial vehicles near the border.
Furthermore, Belarus claimed to have witnessed the MQ-9 Reaper take off from the Campia Turzii airport in Romania up close. The country also claimed to have followed a Turkish Bayraktar drone as it flew over the southern boundary of the adjacent territory, detected by the stealth killer S-400 Triumf System.
Given all these instances, he hopes to strengthen the country's air defense capabilities by quickly placing the S-400 into service. He noted that Belarus already possessed Tor M2 missile defense systems and multi-role fighter jets.
The S-400 surface-to-air missile (SAM) system was created by the Russian Almaz Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering in the 1990s as an upgrade to the S-300 family.
Launchers, targeting systems, anti-aircraft missile systems, multifunction radars, autonomous detection, and anti-aircraft missile systems are all included in its arsenal.
Such a system has a 400 km range and can launch three different kinds of missiles to build a layered defense. It can strike airborne targets up to 30 km away, including aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and ballistic and cruise missiles.
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According to reports, the system's key benefits are its capacity for tracking stealth targets as well as its high flexibility and mobility, which allow for speedy rollout and engagement of targets.
The command post is provided with LCD consoles that manage data from the air space surveillance system as well as control and monitor the long-range surveillance radar.
The S-400 was referred to as among the most sophisticated air defenses available by Siemon Wezeman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and one of the greatest air defense systems currently being developed by The Economist in 2017. (SIPRI).
Among the countries that have procured S-400 systems from Moscow are China, Turkey, and India. China was the first overseas buyer to order the S-400 in 2014. In 2018, Russia launched the first S-400 regimental set deliveries to Beijing for Belarus to operate the stealth killer S-400 Triumf System as its weapons system that is a deterrent to the West to mess within its borders.
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