The international naval salon Fleet-2026, which is taking place in Kronstadt from June 10 to 14, brought together representatives of the Russian Navy, defense enterprises, industry specialists and delegations from friendly countries. The forum is being held at the congress and exhibition center of the Museum of Naval Glory, with displays placed in pavilions, open-air areas and at the berths of Srednyaya Harbor.

Concern VKO Almaz-Antey traditionally became one of the participants in the salon. This year, it presented models of Kalibr-family cruise missiles, mobile radar stations, electronic warfare systems, the Komar turret installation, as well as materials on the Rif-M, Shtil-1, Resurs ship-based anti-aircraft missile systems and other products.

A full-scale sample of the Tor-M2KM air defense missile system was shown at the open-air site of Fleet-2026. The autonomous combat module is produced by the Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant Kupol, which is part of the Almaz-Antey defense holding.

The concern notes that Tor-M2KM is a mobile multichannel short-range system. It is designed to protect important state facilities from aircraft, helicopters, guided missiles, guided and gliding aerial bombs, as well as reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicles.

The autonomous module can operate independently or as part of air defense groupings. It is capable of working day and night, in difficult weather conditions and under active jamming. The system’s radar equipment makes it possible to detect, identify and track aerial targets both while stationary and on the move, as well as fire at them.

Tor-M2KM can be integrated with other air defense assets. The system can be mounted on vehicle chassis, trailers, railway platforms and other carriers with suitable load capacity.

Since 2016, the autonomous combat module has undergone tests in the open sea. Tor-M2KM received its first combat use in 2020 in Nagorno-Karabakh. At that time, according to the developers, crews operated without external target designation and centralized air battle control and destroyed more than 60 aircraft, including six Turkish Bayraktar TB2 reconnaissance-strike UAVs.

Since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, Tor-M2KM has been adapted to naval air defense conditions. The system began to be deployed on Russian Navy ships. Media reports mentioned the installation of the module on the Sovetsk small missile ship of the Karakurt project, as well as on the Vasily Bykov and Pavel Derzhavin patrol ships.

It was also noted that after the introduction of military-technical solutions, such combat modules gained the ability to be installed not only on warships, but also on other vessels with a displacement of 500 tons or more.