The Air Defence Troops (Russian: Войска ПВО Сухопутных войск Российской Федерации, romanized: Voyska PVO Sukhoputnykh voysk Rossiyskoy Federatsii) are a Combat Arm of the Russian Ground Forces, intended to cover troops and facilities from means of air attack of the enemy during conduct by combined-arms associations and formations of operations (combat actions), regroupings (marches) and being on-site.

They are assigned to fulfil the following main tasks:[1] Organisationally the Air Defence Troops of the GF consist of military control bodies, AD command points, anti-aircraft missile (rocket-artillery) and radio-technical formations, military units and subdivisions.

[1] Further development of the Air Defence Troops of the GF is carried out by improving mobility, survivability, covertness of operation, automation's degree, fire efficiency, expanding parameters of the affected area, reducing the response time and the mass-dimensional characteristics of the guided missile (rocket-artillery) systems.

[2] This article incorporates text by Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

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