S-300/400/500 News [Russian Strategic Air Defense] #1

Austin wrote:SOC , I agree there could be lot of may be's

But they have done a huge number of test i read that even S-300P/V was tested against 60 odd BM targets , we know from Almaz-Antey report that the 40N6 has been tested atleast 15 times against targets.

Its unsual to have no videos of these test other that the missile just lifting off .......even India is very liberal when it comes to ABM test.

The only valid conclusion to draw here is they are every paranoid.

TR1 wrote:So, that is 64 launchers to date?

New S-400 Long-Range Missile Ready For Service – Official

A new long-range missile for Russia’s formidable S-400 air defense system will soon enter service, chief-of-staff of Russia’s Air and Missile Defense Command Maj. Gen. Andrei Demin said on Thursday.

“A long-range missile for S-400 has passed all trials and will soon be delivered to air defense units,” Demin told RIA Novosti without specifying the model.

According to experts, it could be the 40N6 variant, which has an active radar homing head and is capable of destroying airborne targets at ranges of up to 400 kilometers (250 miles).

Russia currently has four S-400 regiments - two in the Moscow region, one in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, and one in the Eastern Military District.

By 2020, Russia is to have 28 S-400 regiments, each comprised of two battalions, mainly in maritime and border areas.

The S-400 Triumf long- to medium-range surface-to-air missile system can effectively engage any aerial target, including aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and cruise and ballistic missiles at up to 400 kilometers and an altitude of up to 30 kilometers.

GarryB wrote:So the danger rings round S-400 sites have just expanded greatly...

GarryB wrote:Ahh... Sean... our own Lord of the Rings... Perhaps Sean is Elvish for Sauron?

Quiet, you. Or I'll start a campaign to get New Zealand to buy a squadron of F-35s

07/14/12 MANEUVERS WITH ASD FIRING OF C-400 WILL BEGIN AUGUST 10
July 14 2012 .

RIA Novosti reported. Forces Aerospace Defense (ASD) from 10 to 16 August 2012 at the site Ashuluk (Astrakhan region) will conduct the first live-fire exercises with the anti-aircraft missile systems S-400, told RIA Novosti on Saturday, a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry troops ASD Colonel Dmitry Zenin.

"In the period from 10 to 16 August at the site will Ashuluk first tactical exercises compounds Defense Forces ASD live-fire from anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) and S-400 air defense missile and gun complexes" Armour-C "- a spokesman said .

Zenin said that in these exercises will be attended by two battalions from the regiment of S-400, stationed in the suburban Dmitrov.

According to the Defense Ministry, the organization of the upcoming exercises and combat training in the formations and units EKR discussed on Friday at the base of one of the suburban anti-aircraft missile regiments Air Defense Command PRO-members fees with the leadership of the combat training of troops under the leadership of SAI deputy commander ASD Lieutenant-General Sergei Lobov.

"The gathering was attended by over 100 heads of departments of the Main Combat Training Center of missile warning, space exploration of the Main Center of the situation, the Chief of the test space center named Titov, connections, and missile defense, Plesetsk, arsenal and communications center SAI Troops" - explained Zenin.

Last Wednesday, Deputy Chief of Defence Force Major-General Pavel Kurachenko reported that the Russian army will get to the end of 2012 the fifth set of the regimental air defense missile system S-400. Now the Russian army has four shelves-400, two of which are deployed in the suburbs, one - in the Baltic Fleet, and one - in the Far East.

S-400 "Triumph" - a system of large and medium-range new generation. It is designed to defeat all current and future air and space attack - reconnaissance aircraft, aircraft of strategic and tactical operations, tactical and intermediate range ballistic missiles, hypersonic aircraft targets and radar patrol and guidance.
http://ria.ru/

Its intersting to note that America thought it could get the S-500 on the cheap in around 2000.

Mindstorm wrote:

Its intersting to note that America thought it could get the S-500 on the cheap in around 2000.

Seriously Firebird are you sure that before conceiving amd expressing that....absurdely odd idea....you was perfectly in own of your understanding capabilities.

S-500 ? USA would pay in bribe any amount of money to be capable TODAY to produce even something on par with advanced export versions of late S-300 family specimens (such as S-300PMU-2).

At today, in this specific field, the technological gap between Russian and Western products is so crushing that a system like S-400 is ,and will remain for at least another decade and half, a true alien under a mere technical/performance point of view.

The best that USA is capable to produce ,in that field, are one-task systems very often with great limits even within theirs area of specialization (like the SM-3).

http://www.missilethreat.com/missiledefensesystems/id.54/system_detail.asp

S-500 is a Russian surface-to-air missile system that, if developed, will be able to track and destroy ballistic missiles with ranges of up to 3,500 kilometers.

At the time, the S-400 and its upgraded version, the Antey-2500, were barely below the demarcation threshold.

Now next time Almaz/Antey will show Antey-2500 (naturally the older version of it !!!) in any international exibitions will finally assert that them have offered for years to customers the....upgraded version of the ,by far, most powerful and efficient Air Defense system now operative on the planet

So new version of Antey-2500 is more powerful and efficient than S-400?

"At the time, the S-400 and its upgraded version, the Antey-2500, were barely below the demarcation threshold."