Russia has always distinguished reliability of its air defense systems, starting from the C-125, C-200 and C-300, and C-400 “triumph”, one of the best defense systems in the world at the moment. However, the yield of modern Russian anti-aircraft missile system S-500 into production, It will be a breakthrough for Russia, the magazine writes Military Watch Magazine
Currently, the missile defense system in Russia are S-400, P-300B and A-135, have good potential to repel the attacks of existing missiles and aircraft. But with the advent of hypersonic weapons opponents Russia, a situation may arise, when the system available to Moscow can not cope, so the development of S-500 - a task of strategic importance for Russia.
portal stresses, C-500 could become the world's first anti-aircraft system, capable of reflecting hypersonic missile attacks.
C-500 is a new generation of anti-aircraft missile systems “ground - air”. This is a Russian air defense missile system, which is being developed JSC "Concern EKR" Almaz-Antey "," a new generation of anti-aircraft missile systems, which it is supposed to apply the principle of separate solutions destroy tasks of ballistic and aerodynamic targets.
According to information from open sources, S-500 has a range of 600 kilometers and will be able to detect and simultaneously hit to ten ballistic supersonic purposes, flying at a speed of seven kilometers per second, including low-flying satellites. Key Features AAMS currently classified. the system should be credited to the troops is also not advertised.
