Russia To Supply Egypt with ‘President-S’ Anti-aircraft, Anti-missile System

Egypt will receive President-S onboard defense systems from Russia to protect aviation from anti-aircraft missile systems and air-launched missiles.

"There is a contract and we’re working within this contract. The deliveries will start in the imminent future," Igor Nasenkov, first deputy head of Radioelectronic Technologies Group (KRET) was quoted as saying by Tass on Friday.

The missile defense system is designed to provide individual protection for military and civil aircraft and helicopters from airborne and anti-aircraft missile systems and also from enemy’s ground and sea-based air defense artillery systems, the news agency reported.

The President-S system is capable of revealing the threat of an attack from the enemy’s fighter jets, antiaircraft missile and artillery systems. It can destroy and suppress the optical homing warheads of air and antiaircraft missiles, including the homing warheads of man-portable air defense missile systems.