{"id":252904,"date":"2022-04-30T06:27:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T06:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252904"},"modified":"2022-05-01T07:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T07:15:17","slug":"russia-begins-mass-production-of-s-500-air-defense-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252904","title":{"rendered":"Russia Begins Mass Production of S-500 Air Defense System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Inder Singh Bisht \u2013 The Defense Post April 28, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russia has begun mass producing the S-500 air defense system, the manufacturer has <a href=\"https:\/\/oborona.ru\/product\/zhurnal-nacionalnaya-oborona\/bezuslovnyj-prioritet-vypolnenie-zadach-gosudarstvennogo-oboronnogo-zakaza-43621.shtml\">revealed<\/a> in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The general director of Almaz-Antey Concern, <strong>Yan Novikov<\/strong>, told the Russian news magazine<em> National Defense<\/em> that the system is on schedule to enter service, adding that it will \u201csignificantly exceed the capabilities of previously created air defense systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first unit entered service in September after completing trials. Serial delivery is scheduled to begin in 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedefensepost.com\/2021\/06\/09\/russia-s500-new-interceptors\/\">according to<\/a> Russian state defense manufacturer, Rostec.<\/p>\n<p>While announcing the system\u2019s induction, Russian Deputy Prime Minister <strong>Yuri Borisov <\/strong>clarified that the system is still not fully matured and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedefensepost.com\/2021\/09\/17\/russian-s500-system-enters-service\/\">requires<\/a> further \u201cconfigurations.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Can Intercept Hypersonics<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The S-500 uses a combination of surface-to-air missiles to \u201cdefeat all possible means of an air and space attack,\u201d such as aircraft, drones, spacecraft, cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>It has a stated range of 600 kilometers (373 miles) and can <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20200508\/1571131241.html\">intercept<\/a> up to 10 targets simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the system\u2019s \u201cjam-proof\u201d radar is more powerful than the S-400 and can operate longer than others. It\u2019s capable of detecting threats in near space from a range of up to 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedefensepost.com\/2022\/04\/28\/russia-mass-producing-s-500\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s S-400 is considered the world\u2019s most effective air defence system. Its successor is about to commence mass production <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":252907,"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-252904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/252904","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=252904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252905,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252904\/revisions\/252905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}