220th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

220-я зенитно-ракетная бригада

Military Unit: 54107; from 1976: 48280

Activated 1961 in Rathenow, East Germany, as the 226th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment.

1960's and early 1970's with battalions in Neuruppin, Rathenow and Altengrabow.

1976 renamed 220th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.

Organisation 1988:

• 549th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
• 551st independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
• 552nd independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
• Technical Battalion

Disbanded 1998.

Headquarters:

• Rathenow, East Germany, 1961 - 1976
• Yarkovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, 1976 - 1998 [54 46 13N, 82 31 32E]

Equipment:

• S-75 (SA-2), 1961 - 1976
• Krug (SA-4), 1976 - 1998 (possibly Buk (SA-11) after 1992)

Subordination:

• Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1961 - 1976
• Siberian Military District, 1976 - 1998