Air Defense and Missile Defense Forces
Identification
This record matches the Russian Aerospace Forces’ branch-level Air Defense and Missile Defense Forces command rather than a single field installation. Open sources reviewed through March 2026 still identify Lt. Gen. Andrey Demin as commander of the PVO-PRO troops and deputy commander-in-chief of the VKS, which is consistent with the hierarchy path provided. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/%D0%94/demin-andrey-gennadevich?utm_source=openai))
Mission
Publicly described peacetime tasks for these troops include protection of Russia’s air borders, control of national airspace use, and defense of forces and critical objects against cruise missiles and UAVs. Demin has also stated that additional over-the-horizon radars were intended to help create a more continuous radar field. As of 17-18 December 2025, Russian official reporting said the VKS had formed its first dedicated PVO-PRO division and put the first S-500 regiment on combat duty, indicating continued modernization under this command. ([vpk.name](https://vpk.name/news/564025_voiska_pvo-pro_zaimutsya_sovershenstvovaniem_zashity_gosgranic_rossii_v_2022_godu.html?utm_source=openai))
Confirmed Sites
Two supplied placemarks are strongly corroborated in open sources. First, the Gatchina-district point near Novy Uchhoz/Voyskovitsy matches v/ch 03215; TASS reported that the first S-350 Vityaz systems were to go to the anti-aircraft missile troops’ training center in Leningrad Oblast for operator conversion, consistent with the listed 11th training-center role. Second, the Kovylkino, Mordovia placemark matches the 29B6 Konteyner over-the-horizon radar: Russia reported it entered combat duty on 1 December 2019, and Demin said it watches the western and southern strategic directions at ranges of roughly 2,800 km. ([gtn-pravda.ru](https://gtn-pravda.ru/organizations/voennie-strukturi/voyskovie-chasti.html?utm_source=openai))
Support Footprint
The placemark for v/ch 11291 is consistent with a Moscow-region support or storage site: public business records place that unit at Tрудовая in Dmitrov district, matching the supplied coordinate area. However, I did not find authoritative public material that clearly labels v/ch 11291 as the “25th Air and Missile Defense Forces Arsenal,” so that title should be treated as plausible but not publicly confirmed. ([companies.rbc.ru](https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1045001600159-vojskovaya-chast-11291/?utm_source=openai))
Confidence Limits
Several other listed points — including the separate radio-technical battalions, the Balashikha-area command-post placemark, and the two “missile defense early warning points” west/northwest of Moscow — fit the broader Moscow air- and missile-defense ecosystem, but their exact present-day unit names, functions, and command relationships were not conclusively verifiable from authoritative open sources reviewed here. The safest assessment is that this location record represents the branch headquarters overseeing a distributed network of Moscow-area air-defense, missile-defense, radar, training, and support assets, with some individual placemark identities remaining unconfirmed.