"First S-500 deliveries to the russian
armed forces are scheduled for the end
of the year. We plan to introduce the S-500 air
defense missile system on the global
market by 2030," Mckeeve said at the army
2021 military forum.
The S-500 prometee is a next-generation
surface-to-air missile system with a
range of around 600 kilometers, 370 miles, designed for intercepting and destroying
intercontinental ballistic missiles as
well as hypersonic cruise missiles and
aircraft.
According to top russian military
officials that Eurasian Times earlier
quoted, the S-500 will not replace the
existing systems but will supplement
them. The system is expected to support the
already vast air defense layers of
russia which includes S-400, S-300 and a
vast inventory of short medium-range Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) systems.
Earlier experts said that russia's S-500
systems would be capable of intercepting
hypersonic missiles of the u.s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) that
is presently under development. Popular mechanics magazine reported that
the us army's new LRHW will allow it to
stage a strike on russia in the event of
a conflict. The maximum speed of the warhead is
expected to be 17 times higher than the
speed of the sound, making it possible to
hit targets located at a distance of up
to 2,700 kilometers, 1,677 miles.
Russia's new anti-aircraft missile
system S-500 prometheus is capable of
intercepting maneuvering hypersonic
aerospace attack vehicles flying at even
higher speeds. Therefore the lrhw is in the category of
targets that s 500 hits with a high
probability, the expert said.
According to Nitin J Tiku a defense
expert with the eurasian times, the
russian S-500 has been developed to
neutralize NATO's advanced stealth
aircraft including F-35 lighting 2 and F-22 raptor. He further adds that the S-500s can
detect and engage up to 10 ballistic
hypersonic targets simultaneously but
its actual engagement with the F-22
raptor can only be conceptualized but
not really predicted.
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