The Military Scientific Engineers Opened The Secret of C-500

The military scientific engineers opened the secret of C-500

In the near future Russia will have a unified system of air and missile defense. Its foundation will be the anti-missile system next-generation C-500, developed by Air Defense Concern Almaz-Antey “. On Wednesday, the company passed on the basis of field meeting of military-industrial commission under the Government under the chairmanship of Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov.

C-500 will replace only adopting anti-aircraft missile systems C-400 Triumph. Two battalions of these systems now cover the sky above Moscow. In the future, C-400 to completely replace all the existing Russia’s S-300, reliably protecting the strategically important facilities in the country.

But science does not stand still. Let C-400 and the latest technology, but Concern “Almaz-Antey” decided to go further. C-500 will be able to detect any air targets: from small drones, sneaking over the land, to nuclear warheads flying at a speed of 5 kilometers per second at a distance of 500 km. And not only find and classify the degree of danger, but also effectively immediately hit 10 of them. Modern systems affect not more than six goals, with some purpose, such as nuclear warheads, did not see.

The development of the complex took up in 2007. And on Wednesday showed his first ready-made items. Externally, the new system of family C-300/400 There is practically no different. Is that Ming eight-wheel trucks have replaced Bryansk. There will be new radar positions. At one of the stands Sergei Ivanov revealed the latest radar-based active phased array operating at X-band. This is the last word in technology. The peculiarity of this station that the receiving and transmitting modules are combined into one unit, and antenna on the body there can be several hundred units. Such systems allow not only better detect air targets, but more accurately determine their location in space. As described in the company, in anticipation of the emergence of new C-500 radar will be installed as part of modernization and the S-400, which would further enhance their combat effectiveness.