Egypt has officially received Antey-2500 anti-ballistic missiles from Russia, according to Russia Today website.
The air defense system is designed for the protection of military bases, industrial zones against aerial assaults. It is efficient in destroying ballistic,as well as terrestrial, targets.
Cairo and Moscow, seeking closer military and economic ties with the election of incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sis, have clinched an arms export deal from Russia to Egypt worth of US$3 billion that involved, besides the missile system, Meg-29 and Sukhoi 30 fighters.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
