80th Guards Red Banner Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

80-й гвардейский зенитно-ракетный Краснознаменный полк

Military Unit: 71629

Activated 30.8.60 in Tula, Tula Oblast, from the 80th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment.

Organisation 1960's:

• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (54 18 05N, 37 54 47E) with S-75 (SA-2) missiles
• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (54 08 07N, 37 20 38E) with S-75 (SA-2) missiles
• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (54 02 52N, 37 47 22E) with S-75 (SA-2) missiles
• Technical Battalion

Red Banner awarded 28.2.68.

In 1969 an independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Group with 3 launch S-200 (SA-5) battalions were added to the regiment [US designation: SAM site A28-5 - operational 1972]:

• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (54 11 49N, 37 26 26E) with 6 S-200V (SA-5) launchers
• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (54 11 37N, 37 26 27E) with 6 S-200V (SA-5) launchers
• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (54 11 28N, 37 26 06E) with 6 S-200V (SA-5) launchers - never completed
• Technical Battalion (support area: 54 11 23N, 37 26 35E - guidance & tracking area: 54 11 49N, 37 25 45E)

1.83 part of the unit was used to activate the 231st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment for duty in Syria.

1.11.93 reduced to a mobilisation (cadre) regiment - the personnel was demobilised, and the equipment withdrawn to a central storage base.

1.9.97 transferred to Funkovo, Moscow Oblast, and was absorbed by the 625th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment.

Headquarters:

• Tula, Tula Oblast, 1960 - 1997 [54 11 13N, 37 26 28E]

Subordination:

• 7th Air Defence Corps, 1960 - 1994
• 7th Air Defence Division, 1994 - 1997