297th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

297-я зенитно-ракетная бригада

Military Unit: 93292; from 4.90: 02030

Activated 1.8.60 in Uzhgorod, Zakarpatskaya Oblast, as the 177th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment.

1.6.61 renamed 177th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment.

1962 to 1977 with S-75 (SA-2) battalions at Veszprem and Igal.

In 3.77 renamed 297th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.

Organisation 1988:

• 000 independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Dunaföldvár)

• 604th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Dunaföldvár)

• 615th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Igal) - military unit: 92758

• Technical Battalion

Headquarters:

• Uzhgorod, Zakarpatskaya Oblast, 8.60 - 9.61 [48 37 59N, 22 18 51E]

• Veszprem, Hungary, 9.61 - 5.84 [47 06 43N, 17 55 04E]

• Dunaföldvár, Hungary, 5.84 - 4.90 [46 50 02N, 18 54 28E] - left Dunaföldvár 15.4 to 20.5.90

• Alkino-2, Bashkirskaya ASSR, 4.90 - today [54 40 15N, 55 35 13E]

Equipment:

• 100mm AA guns, 1960 - 1961

• S-75 (SA-2), 1961 - 1977 (S-75M from 1963)

• Krug (SA-4), 1977 - 2002

• Buk-M1 (SA-11), 2002 - today

• S-300V (SA-12), 2008 - today

Subordinated:

• 38th Combined Arms Army, 8.60 - 1962

• Southern Group of Forces, 1962 - 4.90

• Volga-Urals Military District, 4.90 - 9.92

• Ural Military District, 9.92 - 1.9.01

• Volga-Urals Military District, 1.9.01 - today