The Moscow Times – July 20, 2021
Russia’s military has for the first time released footage of a live fire test of its advanced S-500 Prometheus missile system on Tuesday.
The footage showed the vehicle elevating into the launch-ready position, releasing the radar and firing a missile into the air. The Defense Ministry said in a statement that the launch took place at the Kapustin Yar shooting range in southern Russia and the system engaged a “high-speed ballistic target.”
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“The live firing conducted during trials confirmed the Russian military air defense equipment’s specified tactical and technical characteristics and high reliability,” it said.
Intended as a supplement to S-400, the Almaz-Antey defense contractor’s S-500 system is touted for its capability of intercepting stealth warplanes as well as destroying hypersonic weapons and satellites in near space.
In Tuesday’s statement, the Russian military said the S-500 “is objectively unlike anything in the world and is designed to destroy the entire range of existing and future air and space attack weapons in the entire range of altitudes and speeds.”
The S-500 was reported to have carried out the world’s longest surface-to-air missile system test in 2018, flying 80 kilometers longer than previous tests and engaging a target 480 kilometers away.
“After the full test cycle is complete, the first S-500 system will be delivered to the Moscow region air defense and missile defense unit,” the press release said.
The Defense Ministry did not say when the surface-to-air system is expected to enter service.
The S-500 was thought to be scheduled for delivery in 2025, though senior defense officials say the equipment could be slated for earlier delivery.
Its live fire test in Kapustin Yar was publicized one day after the Defense Ministry showed footage of another successful test of its Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile in the Barents Sea in northern Russia.
U.S. Defense Department spokesman John Kirby, when asked about the Tsirkon test Monday, criticized Russia’s hypersonic missiles as “destabilizing and [risky] because they are nuclear capable systems.”
Russia’s Embassy in Washington retorted with a warning of “inadvertent conflict” if the United States deploys hypersonic missiles in Europe amid heightened tensions between Moscow and the West.
Those missiles can end war in days. Drop them on the Pentagon, the Capitol Building, the White House and Wall Street; and the Houses of Parliament, the City of London and the Knesset and they could end war forever. A few dozen missiles.
While those dens of corruption can be rebuilt the opportunities for political and economic elites to wage war unmolested will have passed and could never be restored.
The S500 as suggested has space warfare capability. They say ‘near space’, I’d just say its a space weapon and that it can hit anything this side of the Moon and that includes a Moon base.
So in other words the S500 will be able to hit Hollywood.
I absolutely love how Russian rockets go up, then change angle of attack/departure, and then zip away like something out of The Roadrunner.
albert .. Hollywood ??? OMG & we would miss all those LGBTQRXYZ flicks ? Like you can see the 4’5″ 40 lb girl beating the crap out of a 6’5″ 250 lb man to a pulp ?? Would you like to miss that ?? & same girl shooting at 300′ a man with a SW .45 right between the eyes ??
I’m sure that you wouldn’t want it ..