{"id":239157,"date":"2021-07-21T06:55:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T06:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239157"},"modified":"2021-07-22T05:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:59:12","slug":"russia-shows-advanced-s-500-live-fire-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239157","title":{"rendered":"Russia Shows Advanced S-500 Live Fire Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Moscow Times \u2013 July 20, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russia\u2019s military has for the first time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mod.mil.rus\/videos\/2910268169242776\/\">released<\/a> footage of a live fire test of its advanced S-500 Prometheus missile system on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201chigh-speed ballistic target.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C_M6JF13RXw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe live firing conducted during trials confirmed the Russian military air defense equipment\u2019s specified tactical and technical characteristics and high reliability,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Intended as a supplement to S-400, the Almaz-Antey defense contractor\u2019s S-500 system is touted for its capability of intercepting stealth warplanes as well as destroying hypersonic weapons and satellites in near space.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuesday\u2019s statement, the Russian military said the S-500 \u201cis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The S-500 was reported to have carried out the world\u2019s longest surface-to-air missile system test in 2018, flying 80 kilometers longer than previous tests and engaging a target 480 kilometers away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the full test cycle is complete, the first S-500 system will be delivered to the Moscow region air defense and missile defense unit,\u201d the press release said.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Ministry did not say when the surface-to-air system is expected to enter service.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Its live fire test in Kapustin Yar was publicized one day after the Defense Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2021\/07\/19\/russia-test-fires-tsirkon-hypersonic-cruise-missile-a74551\">showed<\/a> footage of another successful test of its Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile in the Barents Sea in northern Russia.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Defense\u00a0Department spokesman John Kirby, when asked about the Tsirkon test Monday, criticized Russia\u2019s hypersonic missiles as \u201cdestabilizing and [risky] because they are nuclear capable systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Embassy in Washington retorted with a warning of \u201cinadvertent conflict\u201d if the United States deploys hypersonic missiles in Europe amid heightened tensions between Moscow and the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2021\/07\/20\/russia-shows-advanced-s-500-live-fire-test-a74564\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheduled for delivery in 2025 and capable of intercepting targets nearly 500 kilometres away, the S-500 will replace the older S-400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239158,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239157\/revisions\/239158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}