That is according to a post on the official account of the West Operational Command on Facebook.
"The most modern russian TOR SAM system has been destroyed!
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Perfect work of our military, who destroyed the russian TOR system with a precise HIMARS strike," the West Operational Command states.
The post is accompanied with the relevant video.
According to the post, "the price for such a system starts at 24 million dollars."
"HIMARS will never end. We are cleaning the earth from unnecessary things!" the West Operational Command underlines and promises to hunt more russia’s valuable equipment with the help of American HIMARS.
The 9K330 Tor all-weather, low-to medium-altitude, short-range surface-to-air missile system (NATO reporting name: SA-15 Gauntlet, , SA-N-9 Gauntlet) is designed for destroying airplanes, helicopters, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and short-range ballistic threats (anti-munitions).
The closest foreign equivalent to the Tor, in function and operation, are systems like the British Rapier missile and French Crotale missile systems.
According to Oryx conservative estimates, since the start of russia’s full-scale invasion to Ukraine, the occupiers have lost at least 48 the TOR SAM systems of different modifications.
As Defense Express reported, Ukrainian Forces Disabled Critical russian Jamming Station in Liman Region.
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