A-135 Moscow ABM system

Austin wrote:missile 53T6 Gazelle...has a remarkable speed characteristics - in just 3-4 seconds the rocket is gaining maximum speed, which according to various estimates range from 4 to 5.5 kilometers per second. The acceleration is so high that the human eye can not follow the flight of the missile. During start-up overload achieved 210G and, in spite of this, the whole complex system of guidance, located in the rocket continues to function. The goal is intercepted at a range of 80 km and an altitude of 30 km, with tactical nuclear or fragmentation warhead.

Morpheus Eberhardt wrote:The four ports visible in the nozzle are probably the ports for the gas injection thrust-vector system.

Mike E wrote:
It uses a gas-injection thrust-vectoring system? I thought those were still in developmental stages...

On June 9, 2015 the Air and Space Defense Forces successfully tested a short-range interceptor of the A-135 missile defense system, which is deployed around Moscow. The interceptor, apparently 53T6, known as Gazelle, was launched at 11:32 MSK and is said to have successfully reach its target. The test was supported by the Sary-Shagan crews of the Strategic Rocket Forces and industry representatives.

max steel wrote:If A-135 is in service and can it shoot down icbms ?

Russian missile defense system, covering Moscow and central industrial area, will receive new interceptors, which will begin testing in the Kazakhstan Sary-Shagan in the 2019-2020 year. On this, as reported by TASS, said the head of the department of combat algorithms and software connection missile defense aerospace forces of Russia colonel Ilgar Tagiyev.

under the designation A-135 "Amur" missile defense system stood on combat duty in 1989. Today it consists of 68 missiles of short-range 53T6, and the radar "Don-2N" centimeter range. The interceptors are capable of speeds up to 3.6 thousand meters per second and intercept enemy ballistic missiles at an altitude of 30 kilometers.

With the "M-plane" beginning of the 2010s, work is underway to modernize the missile defense system of Moscow to version A-235. For her, it is planned to develop a new long-range missiles with high accuracy to intercept and completely replace outdated electronic systems to the new.

Other details of the upgraded missile defense system is classified. It is known that in the framework of the modernization project was laid Soviet project "M-plane", the development of which was conducted in parallel with the creation of the A-135 in 1978. This project, among other things, involves the use of interceptor missiles of long-range nuclear warheads.

missile defense system has been designed and built as part of the agreement with the US on the ABM. This document was signed in 1972. The document allows the parties to have no more than one system that covered either the capital or one database with ballistic missiles.

The US missile defense system has been developed on the basis of "Grand Forks" in North Dakota. However, later the US military came to the conclusion that such a special benefit system does not work, and it deactivated in the 1990s, and in 2002 the United States withdrew from the contract. After the release of the Americans began to develop large-scale missile defense system with position area in Europe and the Pacific.