A battalion armed with the K300P Bastion-P (SSC-5) mobile coastal defense missile system and serving with the 11th Novorossiysk Coastal Defense Missile and Artillery Brigade has been relocated to the Kazachya Bay area near Sevastopol. Specialists of the Black Sea Fleet’s missile and artillery weapons repair plant have also restored to operational readiness a mothballed highly protected missile battalion that was part of the so-called ‘Object 100’.22 This is an underground facility that was built near Balaklava in 1955-1956. It hosted fixed-position launchers of the Utes (SSC-1B) stationary bunker-concrete missile complex equipped with Progress (Improved SS-N-3B) anti-ship missiles. In 1997 that complex, which consisted of two battalions, was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy. In the early 2000s one of the battalions stationed near the Oboronnoye village was looted clean. The second battalion, stationed near Reservnoye village, was mothballed. It has now been restored to operational readiness as a matter of priority. The Bastion-P battalion and the aforementioned battalion of ‘Object 100’ are now part of a newly-formed coastal defense missile brigade of the Black Sea Fleet.23
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22 Flag Rodiny, September 4, 2014. Better aim for accuracy.
23 Bastion’s missile autograph // Flag Rodiny, September 11, 2014.
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