The whole world was watching the S-500 tests. Thanks to this weapon, Russia will have the opportunity to create an absolutely impenetrable "space shield". Why is so much attention focused on this SAM, including in the Chinese press?
The newest Russian anti-aircraft missile system, which enters the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, is not a more advanced modification of its predecessor, the S-400. He has absolutely different goals set before him. The S-500 Prometheus air defense system makes Russia invulnerable, journalists of the official publication of the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China "Zhongguo Junwang" write.
The article claims that the "space shield", which is the new Russian system, is able to withstand any existing and future threats from the air and from space. No country in the world, including the United States, has the means of attack capable of overcoming such a powerful defense.
Potential targets of the latest Russian air defense system are not only missiles and fighters, but also strategic bombers, reconnaissance aircraft, hypersonic weapons and even space satellites in low orbits. Prometheus is capable of resisting even those promising weapons systems that are still under development and have not been adopted by potential opponents.
The S-500 Prometheus is a new generation of long-range and high-altitude interception surface-to-air missile systems. They are capable of detecting and destroying up to ten supersonic targets simultaneously, moving at speeds of up to seven kilometers per hour. The radius of destruction of the missile system is about 600 kilometers.
State tests of the newest S-500 anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) have been completed, its deliveries to the troops have begun, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said in mid-September. He added that excellent air defense systems will be exported from those that will go to the Russian army. According to Borisov, this is standard practice: the characteristics of exported weapons "should not exceed domestic ones."
Interest in Russian air defense systems is stable. India recently asked Moscow to speed up the delivery of the IGLA air defense system as much as possible. New Delhi, by the way, is one of the largest buyers of Russian weapons, including the S-400 system, to a certain extent the predecessor of the S-500.
And Russia has new portable air defense systems on the way, the Rostec state Corporation reported . The maximum range of these MANPADS is five to six kilometers, designers are now engaged in increasing this indicator.
Russia continues to hold global leadership in the segment of air defense systems, the most important segment of the military-technical industry.
By Kirill Grishin, Sputnik Radio
