S-300/400/500 News [Russian Strategic Air Defense] #2

rambo54 wrote:Well...9M96 was announced a long time ago (as with the never ending story of 40N6).
But it finally it end up in the S-350 (as 40N6 will end up in S-500 - 2020)...

The exhibition opening July 18, 2017 in Zhukovsky near Moscow International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017, among other things, will be provided anti-aircraft guided short-range missile 9M100 (open symbol 9M100E) development of JSC "Concern EKR" Almaz-Antey ". Reported on the accompanying stand, the missile "included in the SAM" Triumph "is used as an active fire SAM shipborne facilities." The anti-aircraft short-range missile 9M100 (open symbol 9M100E) development AB "Concern VC On the "Almaz-Antey" in the exhibition opening MAKS-2017. Zhukovsky, 07/16/2017 (s) Mikhail Zherdev

Austin wrote:Looks like two missile 9M100E and 9M100E1

Can any one who can read Russian tell the difference ?

Benya wrote:

Austin wrote:Looks like two missile 9M100E and 9M100E1

Can any one who can read Russian tell the difference ?

9M100E-1 is six times heavier than 9M100E, plus both of these missiles are designed for the shipborne version of the S-400.

archangelski wrote:

Just a question : where do you read that 9M100E-1 is 6 times heavier than 9M100E ? The two flyers give information on the dimensions and masses of the missile and those of the containers ...

Rmf wrote:well this is a shock , earlier mockups had imaging infrared guidance ,  this is command guided or active radar possibly due to canards being moved back to free  up space?

miketheterrible wrote:It is the 9M100E, E being it is an export variant.  I doubt it will be anything more than a command guided missile.  Or it could be active homing.

I guess we will have to wait and see if anything is mentioned in the next coming days from MAKS.

Benya wrote:

archangelski wrote:

Just a question : where do you read that 9M100E-1 is 6 times heavier than 9M100E ? The two flyers give information on the dimensions and masses of the missile and those of the containers ...

Oops, my bad. I have confused the two.

AMCXXL wrote:The two better websites with enough current data were warfare.ru/warfare.be, closed last year and milkavkaz.net written by a russian, recently locked
I see in this forum , some information copied from milkavkaz.net
It's really bad luck not to have copied the whole web (even in russian), despite their errors/omissions

GarryB wrote:These 9M100 missiles are interesting... the 9M100 was supposed to be an IIR homing short range lock on after launch missile for all branches... called Morfei.

jhelb wrote:

GarryB wrote:These 9M100 missiles are interesting... the 9M100 was supposed to be an IIR homing short range lock on after launch missile for all branches... called Morfei.

So when an interceptor missile hits an ICBM that is carrying a nuclear warhead, will the nuclear warhead explode upon impact ?

Azi wrote:
No! The nuclear warhead can't explode after a kinetic hit from an interceptor. The mechanism to realize a nuclear explosion is very complex. Exact geometry is needed, it's a complex combination of hypercritical mass, neutron reflector and neutron source. But radioactive parts will still fall from sky!

jhelb wrote:... Also, if the warhead doesn't explode like you said, how will there be a radioactive leakage ? Thanks

jhelb wrote:

Azi wrote:
No! The nuclear warhead can't explode after a kinetic hit from an interceptor. The mechanism to realize a nuclear explosion is very complex. Exact geometry is needed, it's a complex combination of hypercritical mass, neutron reflector and neutron source. But radioactive parts will still fall from sky!

"Exact geometry" in this context would refer to what ?  Also, if the warhead doesn't explode like you said, how will there be a radioactive leakage ? Thanks

Azi wrote:If the interceptor now collides with the nuclear warhead, with a kinetic difference of at least 15.000 km/h, the kinetic energy is soo high that the nuclear warhead is shattered in hundreds or thousands of pieces. No hypercritical mass, no existent reflector, even not the time for a accidental explosion!

The newest anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) S-500 Prometheus and Antei-4000 will be presented for the first time to foreign military specialists at the exhibition-forum Army-2017, which opens tomorrow. In addition to them will be shown and anti-aircraft missile system "Buk-M3" with updated weapons. Experts believe that the novelties, which have become the basis of the unified national system of air and space defense of Russia, will cause great interest among foreign buyers.

The Defense Ministry told Izvestia that the advanced anti-aircraft missile systems would be demonstrated in the closed part of the exposition of the Army-2017 forum. The S-500 Prometey and Antei-4000 are positioned as the main elements of the unified national air and space defense system being created in Russia. However, there is practically no official information about their real possibilities. It is known that the S-500 is capable of intercepting a wide range of aerospace purposes. Including American hypersonic aircraft, which for the characteristic trajectory of flight received the nickname "runners".

Earlier, Alexander Vedrov, Deputy Director General for Production and Technological Policy of Almaz-Antey Concern OJSC, noted only that this weapon represents a new generation of SAMs, in which it is intended to apply the principle of separate solution of the tasks of destroying ballistic and aerodynamic targets. Their supplies to the Russian military are scheduled for 2019. At the same time, an export passport of products can be prepared, without which it is impossible to sell them to foreign customers.

"The secrecy with respect to the S-500" Prometheus "is explained by the ambitiousness of the tasks facing it," Professor of the Academy of Military Sciences Vadim Kozyulin told Izvestia. - They must be able to shoot conventional and hypersonic cruise missiles, aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Do this both at the very surface of the Earth, and in the near space. And this already implies the destruction of low-orbit satellites and space weapons, launched from hypersonic aircraft, shock hypersonic UAVs and orbital platforms.

The appearance of Prometheus has not yet been officially presented. Although it was accidentally discovered by the Almaz-Antey concern itself. The figure of a six-axis machine with two launch tubes was included in the company's annual calendar. A little more is known about Antey-4000. This system represents an export version of the newest S-300V4 anti-aircraft missile system. In the Russian army, this ZRS comes in 2014.

Unlike its predecessor, the S-300V complex, the element base has been completely updated in the new machine. New super-powerful computers, new domestic software are installed. The radars of the complex became more sensitive and noise-proof. For the new system, unique long-range missiles were created. They must confidently hit targets at ranges of up to 400 km. The system also provides for less powerful missiles to combat small-sized targets within a radius of 150 km. In general, the combat effectiveness of the S-300V4 increased by 2.3 times compared with previous generations of S-300s.

Andrei Frolov, editor-in-chief of the magazine Export of Arms, suggested in a conversation with Izvestia that the new SAMs will be demonstrated primarily to potential foreign buyers.

- The growth of demand for air defense and missile defense systems is facilitated by the situation around the DPRK. If Pyongyang makes a new rocket, then it will quickly go to export and can be in Iran and Pakistan, "the expert said. - In addition, the experience of the war in Yemen showed that the systems existing in Saudi Arabia do not always intercept even obsolete Soviet-made missiles.

According to Andrei Frolov, the list of possible customers is quite large. Interest in the newest SAMs can be shown by China, India, Vietnam, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and also some monarchies of the Persian Gulf - Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar.

"The first buyers can be Indians," the expert suggested. - Memorandum on the supply of air defense systems was signed with Delhi last fall. Negotiations on supplies and prices are currently under way.

In April of this year, the presence in Syria of Russian S-300 and S-400 systems actually prevented a massive air campaign against government forces. At the same time, the authoritative US military publication Defense One wrote with reference to experts and representatives of the Pentagon that modern Russian air defense systems "cover" airspace over the coastal areas of the SAR for practically all air attack means.

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