Moscow has ordered the guided missile cruiser Moskva to operate off the coast of Latakia, Syria and provide air defense cover to the Russian military contingent there.
Mil.ru [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The Slava-class cruiser is armed with 16 S-300F Fort surface-to-air missiles.
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