First photo of Egypt S-300 air defense system

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By Dylan Malyasov
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Egypt buy the S-300 missile defense system from Russia.

The Russian news agency TASS said in a March report that Egypt would receive the Antey-2500 missile system, an S-300 variant, and put the value of the contract at more than a billion dollars.

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