American magazine The National Interest, recently not very flatteringly about the Russian anti-aircraft missile systems S-300 and S-400, I decided this time to write about the latest Russian development – S-500. American edition analyzed the potential of the P-500 “Prometheus” and the released material with the name: “Terrible new Russian system of air and missile defense S-500 sets a new distance record”, He writes “Expanded”.
In its submission on the C-500, the authors state, that the new Russian air defense missile system is not only capable of destroying ballistic missiles and satellites, but can fight samoletami-“stealth”, including as F-22 and F-35. In this edition notes, that although at the moment not all the features of S-500 were demonstrated, no reason to doubt its capabilities.
The authors write, that the Russian creators complex tested it “in ranges, which are considered impossible”. According to US military sources, Russian S-500 hit the target at a distance of nearly 300 miles (about 500 kilometers), What's on 50 miles (or more 80 kilometers) more, than the stated specifications of similar systems in the world. It is noted, C-500 uses several types of missiles, designed to destroy various existing air targets, and the ability to hit targets flying at a speed of seven kilometers per second, generally makes C-500 “summer storm, including satellites”.
Summing up, American magazine writes, that the Russian S-500 system is capable of hitting targets at a height 200 km in radius 600 km, thus can simultaneously to intercept 10 ballistic missiles. It is easily integrated into air defense system and can work together with other Russian complexes. All this together makes the S-500 “terrible system”.
