S-500 anti-aircraft missile system "PROMETHEUS"

🇷🇺 S-500 anti-aircraft missile system "PROMETHEUS"

THE WORLD'S FIRST PLATFORM ABLE TO REFLECT HYPERSONIC ATTACKS. IN CHARACTERISTICS SIGNIFICANTLY EXCEEDS TRIUMPH "AND AMERICAN PATRIOT

Specifications:

DEVELOPER: Concern East Kazakhstan region Almaz-Antey "

TASKS

Basic fighting combat

equipping ballistic

medium-range missiles (up to 3500 km) Destroy aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Destruction of orbital satellite and kosky weapons

Destruction of hypersonic cruise missiles

Intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles

The height of the defeat - up to 200 km The radius of the air defense missile system - 600 km

DETECTES AND HITS

ballistic supersonic targets flying at speeds up to 7 km / s

S-500 will be armed with hypersonic anti-missiles 7786-N 77N6-N1 without warheads. Hit the target with a direct hit

It is planned to develop a naval version of the S-500 air defense system, in particular, for installation on aircraft carriers of the Shtorm project

The RF Ministry of Defense signed a contract with the Almaz-Antey concern for the supply of more than 10 Prometey anti-aircraft missile systems (S-500) to the Aerospace Forces.

Serial deliveries will begin in the first half of 2022, ”- a TASS source in the defense industry.

🇷🇺 A contract was signed for the supply of more than 10 S-500 Prometey videoconferencing systems.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation signed a contract with the Almaz-Antey concern for the supply of the first batch of S-500 Prometey anti-aircraft missile systems. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

"The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation signed a contract with the Almaz-Antey concern for the supply of more than 10 Prometheus systems to the Aerospace Forces (VKS). Serial deliveries will begin in the first half of 2022," he said on the sidelines of the MAKS-2021 air show, which took place from 20 to 25 July in Zhukovsky.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, at present "state tests of the S-500 air defense system are underway at one of the test ranges in the south of Russia." They are expected to be completed at the end of 2021.