RUSSIAN S400 VS S500 COMPARISON : TOP 5 FACTS

RUSSIAN S400 VS S500 COMPARISON : TOP 5 FACTSRUSSIAN S400 VS S500 COMPARISON : TOP 5 FACTS

INTRODUCTION

S 400 TRIUMF ENTERED SERVICE IN 2007 , AND MANY EXPERTS CONSIDER IT THE BEST AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM.

S 500 PROMETEY IS CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED BY RUSSIA’S ALMAZ-ANTEY COMPANY AND IS EXPECTED TO BE DEPLOYED BY END OF 2017.

S 400 AND S 500 ARE DESCENDANTS OF LEGENDARY S 300 SYSTEM ,AND EMPLOYS THE SAME ‘HIT AND RUN’ CONCEPT BY BEING LAND MOBILE.

S 500 IS EXPECTED TO HAVE THE SAME MAJOR COMPONENTS AS IT PREDECESSORS AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS.



COMPARISON:

S 500 TAKES IT TO NEXT LEVEL , IMPROVING ON ALL MAJOR PARAMETERS.

RANGE : 400 KM.2 600 KM

MAX SIMULTANEOUS TARGET ENGAGEMENT : 6 10

RESPONSE TIME : 9-10 SEC 3-4 SEC

ANTI BALLISTIC MISSILE ENGAGEMENT: SHORT TO MEDIUM ICBM

INTENDED USE: ALL TYPES OF THREATS HIGH VALUE TARGETS

ENGAGEMENT TYPE : HIT TO KILL HIT TO KILL & NUCLEAR


THE RADAR IS EXPECTED BE MORE POWERFUL AND HAS MANY FEATURES SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO OVERCOME COUNTERMEASURES AND STEALTH.
LIKE S 400 , S 500 WILL FIELD DIFFERENT TYPES OF MISSILE TO NEUTRALIZE DIFFERENT KINDS OF THREATS.



CONCEPT:

S 500 IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE S 400 , BUT IS ACT IN COLLABORATION WITH IT.

IT IS DESIGNED FOR INTERCEPTING HIGH VALUE STRATEGIC TARGETS LIKE INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES AND FOR AIR DEFENSE AGAINST AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING AND CONTROL AND JAMMING AIRCRAFT. 

S 500 WILL BE DEPLOYED TO PROTECT CRITICAL LOCATIONS LIKE MAJOR POPULATION CENTERS & MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE . 

IN INTEGRATED AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT , S 500 WILL HOOK UP WITH OTHER SYSTEM INCLUDING S 400 TO FORM A COMPLEX NETWORK OF AIR DEFENSE UMBRELLA.


BMD & ASA

WHILE THE S-400 IS DESIGNED TO DEFEND AGAINST SHORT AND MEDIUM RANGE MISSILES, THE S-500 WILL BE DESIGNED TO COMBAT EVEN INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES OR ICBMS.

GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE ALMAZ-ANTEY CORPORATION IGOR ASHURBEILI:

FOR INTERCEPTION OF BALLISTIC MISSILES, THE S-500 WILL “MOSTLY” USE NUCLEAR WARHEADS BECAUSE THESE CAN DESTROY “THE ENTIRE CLOUD OF INCOMING WARHEADS WITH NO NEED TO DETERMINE TRUE THREATS FROM DUMMIES”.

AS PER SOME SOURCES, THE S-500 SYSTEM CAN DETECT BALLISTIC MISSILE AT A RANGE OF 2 000 KM AND WARHEADS OF BALLISTIC MISSILES AT A RANGE OF 1 300 KM. IT CAN DEFEAT BALLISTIC MISSILES BEFORE THEIR WARHEADS RE-ENTER ATMOSPHERE.

DUE TO THE MASSIVE RANGE OF S 500, EXPERTS BELIEVE IT WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE OUT LOW-ORBIT SATELLITES ACTING AS ANTI SATELLITE WEAPON.



CONCLUSION:

S 400 & THE UPCOMING S 500 WILL FORM THE BACKBONE OF RUSSIA’S AIR DEFENSE. THE SYSTEMS POSE A GENUINE THREAT TO ENEMY AIRCRAFTS INCLUDING THE 5TH GENERATION FIGHTERS LIKE F 35 AND F 22.

S 500 ALSO HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CHANGE THE STRATEGIC EQUILIBRIUM BY GIVING THE MOSCOW THE ABILITY TO INTERCEPT EVEN ICBM.

The Russian S-500 missile system. This isn't an upgraded S-400, its a totally new missile system coming out in the next couple of years. They're designed to take down Jamming aircraft, ICBM, cruise missiles and more or less anything that can fly. It can intercept 10 supersonic/ballistic targets at speeds of up to 16,000 mph and has a range of 600 km.. It cant be jammed. It can detect a target at 3,000 km. It has a response time of 4 seconds, unlike the Patriot which takes 90 seconds and uses satellites. Now if there's a replacement spy plane going over Russia etc, it obviously needs to be stealthy and fly very high and fast, possibly in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

During the cold war the MiG 31 Foxhound fitted with R-33 missiles was the only thing that came close to the SR-71. Even though the MiG could achieve Mach-3 ish,and achieve lock on, it could only sustain max velocity for a shot period of time before engine damage. Most of the time when they picked up the SR-71 on radar then sent up the interceptors or MiG's, Blackbird was well gone. They would even fire SAM's at it.

If you compare Russian SAM's back then to what they are now, they're totally on another level. Russia's new S-4 & 500 SAM systems working in tandem, are designed to take out more or less anything, even space threats like ICBM's. If we had a replacement for the SR-71, and all the media attention was just for show, to make Russia think everyone has given up watching them after the cold war ended, they've got have something very high, like in a low Earth orbit  (LEO) with stealth to avoid the Russian missile shield. You see the USA hasn't got a space based radar system, it was scrapped a few years ago due to cost. So in reality NATO is in the same place as they were back in the 1980's when it comes to keeping an eye on Russia.

 The only engine theoretically capable of this is the British SABRE engine. Its being built in the UK for a single stage to orbit space plane called SKYLON. Although it did go Top-Secret for a while. It may have been sold under license to the CIA/Lockheed Martin, or at least the heat exchanger technology. The engine can do in excess of Mach-5 in Jet mode before it transforms into a rocket engine. The conventional Jet engine is limited to speed, because the air entering the engine becomes as hot as the burning fuel. This is a problem, because a jet engine needs expansion as the fuel and air burn. There needs to be a differential. This SABRE engine overcomes this is because it has special heat exchanger's within the engine to cool the air at very high velocity. This means that the rocket engine doesn't need to take the extra fuel or oxidizer(liquid oxygen) to propel it into space. It takes it from the atmosphere.

Once this S-500 missile system comes on-line in the next few years, we may see the USA declassify their spy-spy plane, just like they did when the MiG-31 started to lock on to the SR-71. Although there's one main thing, we don't even know if it exists or not yet. If anyone is interested in the British SABRE engine and the space plane its going to be fitted on, look at this link. http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/