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At http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/S-300PMU2_complex.jpg, a very good photo of the flag of the Almaz-Antei weapons company
Eugene Ipavec, 20 Jul 2007
Named after the Russian words for "diamond" and the
Titan Antaeus. Text reads
"KOHЦEPH ПBO / AЛMAЗ-AHTEЙ" or
"KONTSERN PVO / ALMAZ-ANTEI". PVO stands for "Protivo-Vozdushnaya
Oborona," or "anti-aircraft defense;" the hardware being pimped in the
photo is a SAM system.
Eugene Ipavec, 3 Mar 2009
note the little national tricolor used as antenna flag (at 1st
glance looks like a big flag on a distant, tall pole), and the Air Force
flag at the right side of the truck (with national tricolor
at left?).
António MARTINS-Tuválkin, 21 Mar 2009
There's this image
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/S-300PMU2_complex.jpg
taken at Zhukovskiy, in the Moscow Oblast where there's
an S-300PMU2 missile system on display. In the picture, taken on Agusut 21,
2005, one can see a blue flag, with a logo and an inscription in cyrillic, can
anybody identify what it is?
Esteban Rivera, 15 March 2013
It's the flag of Almaz-Antey, the enterprise which builds the S-300PMU2. Its
Russia's largest defense enterprise. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz-Antey
Dirk Schönberger, 15 March 2013
Almaz-Antej, or something like that. A manufacturer of military equipment.
Was in the news a number of years ago when someone in the top of the then just
created concern was shot dead because of machinations within the company. The
details are probably not that hard to find.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 15 March 2013
Blue flag with logo of JSC "Concern "Almaz-Antey" - military enterprise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz-Antey
Victor Lomantsov, 15 March 2013
The inscription is KONZERN PWO (1st line) and ALMAS-ANTEI (2nd line). KONZERN
indicates a company flag. More interesting is the blue flag with yellow rays.
Looks similar to the Air Force flag in our pages. I know that in Soviet Times
the Strategic Missile Troops were a forth column besides Army,
Navy and Air Force. I can't identify the black
devices on that flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 March 2013
I see it as two wings and crossed cannon and propeller, as in the flag of the
Air Force of the Russian Federation.
According to Wikipedia the Russian Air-Defense Forces just existed until 1998.
The successor organization "Aerospace Defense Forces" which is responsible for
defending from air- and missile attacks has another symbol and no flag. The
Airforce has a flag and a symbol. The strategic missile force normally has no
defending capabilities, and it has another symbol and flag anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_the_Russian_Federation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Missile_Troops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Aerospace_Defence_Forces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Air_Force
It should be the Air Force Flag, though propeller and gun are white in our pages
and seem to be black in the photo provided by Esteban. Ans it is definitely
distinct from the Strategic Missile Troops flag given in the 2nd link below.
Dirk Schönberger, 15 March 2013
