>Russia's defense technology sector is touting that Moscow's newest S-500 ‘Prometheus’ air defense system is capable of reaching targets in space, according to the latest statements from the First Deputy General Director of the VKO Almaz-Antey, Sergei Druzin. The VKO Almaz-Antey, or "Air and Space Defense Corporation" is a Russian state-owned company and the country's largest defense tech contractor.
This isn't really impressive. "Space" technically starts around 99KM up from sea-level.
Parker Edwards
I mean, that isn’t too extraordinary. I assume they’re referring to a mid course intercept capability for ballistic missiles. In which case, the US already had THAAD and SM-3. If they mean to say that they can hit ICBMs or Maneuvering orbital targets, I’m gonna need them to substantiate their claims.
Jonathan Hughes
We just wait for russias inability to procure them in anything more than a single digit quantity to kill them, just like the T14 and SU57
Hudson Kelly
fuck man... imagine fucking around and clicking on some 3D map and taking down a satellite... kek
It's from the video in OP. looks like a reconstruction of all of the objects that s-500 radar can see. lower portion looks like various IDs of objects and in the other frame there's something like a targeting module.
Luis Fisher
S-500 is truly a great addition to the Russian fictional arsenal and will complement the MiG-41.
They'd like to know if you'd prefer their proof in the for of civilian airliners, or the ISS?
Dominic Richardson
Can't wait till they build a total of 3
Josiah Campbell
Audibly keked
Nicholas Diaz
thats quite generous.
Jackson Sanders
Honestly, after these slavic subhumans promised us space-fighting MiG 41s and then quietly cancelled the project, I don't know whether to trust them anymore.
Bentley Hernandez
>be russian on ISS >find out about this propaganda machine that can take out objects in space >see that your own slavic inbred countrymen have targeted the russian side by mistake instead of the airliner they were trying to hit >die at the hands of the one S-500 system in existence such is life in russia.
Jonathan White
Now Turkey can buy it and let NSA Spooks crawl all over it.
David Bennett
they are actually saying it can hit LEO orbit which is impressive for a small missile like this but in a general sense its nothing new they had ta capability before
Gavin Martin
Space!!! What about T-I-G-E-R-S?
Logan Martinez
hurr its durr because russians only vodka poors and can only buy just 1 or 2 and its broken and durr
This is a grave threat to the United States of America that Russia has expanded their capacity for agression against strategic assets and US Service men and women.
>P78-1 or Solwind was a United States satellite launched aboard an Atlas F rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 24, 1979. The satellite operated until it was destroyed in orbit on September 13, 1985 to test the ASM-135 ASAT anti-satellite missile.
The Soviet Union also experimented with large, ground-based ASAT lasers from the 1970s onward (see Terra-3), with a number of U.S. spy-satellites reportedly[citation needed] being "blinded" (temporarily) during the 1970s and 1980s. The USSR had also researched directed energy weapons, under the Fon project from 1976, but the technical requirements needed of the high-powered gas dynamic lasers and neutral or charged particle beam systems seemed to be beyond reach.
wish people could just fucking mad and make crazy shit again
Blake Kelly
NATO/ the US spend a lot of time and money figuring out where potential enemy radar sites are a long time before they might need to destroy them
What do think the big drone that Iran shot down last week was doing?
Christopher Carter
at the alt it was?nothing really just baiting the relative height difference between the drone and the mountains of the area was just 2000 ft
Noah Hall
They are. American HEL research suddenly went dark as the far side of the fucking moon a couple years back, save for a few public low power testbeds.
Ethan Johnson
technically speaking NOWDAYS you can create a ionized charge particle beam as a weapon
now directing such a weapon to a target tho will be a challenge..
Joshua Cooper
The U.S already have a system with that capability. As usual, russia is YEARS behind the west, crude and unsophisticated savages as they are.
That is a fair point. That "drone" was flying really fucking low.
Caleb Wright
iran made sure to let it out that they knew that a usn g100 was flying some miles ahead of it
Joshua Jenkins
Are they though.
Andrew Adams
True
Luke Brooks
>years behind
meanwhile at ussr
Delays in the UR-200 missile program prompted Chelomei to request R-7 rockets for prototype testing of the IS. Two such tests were carried out on 1 November 1963 and 12 April 1964. Later in the year Khrushchev cancelled the UR-200 in favour of the R-36, forcing the IS to switch to this launcher, whose space launcher version was developed as the Tsyklon-2. Delays in that program led to the introduction of a simpler version, the 2A, which launched its first IS test on 27 October 1967, and a second on 28 April 1968. Further tests carried out against a special target spacecraft, the DS-P1-M, which recorded hits by the IS warhead's shrapnel. A total of 23 launches have been identified as being part of the IS test series. The system was declared operational in February 1973.
Owen Barnes
Current US technology matches USSR 1970s tech duh it's not really comparable, mutts are just starting to catch up with s300
Xavier Hernandez
Not really. Those were nuclear big-ass missiles. American are small and rely on direct kinetic interception, not on a nuclear blast.
Russians are white in the same way that the MiG 35 is a 5th gen fighter.
William Sanchez
meet
Nicholas Rivera
Congratulations Russia, welcome to the 70s!
Henry Richardson
meet
Isaac Mitchell
YAY Another Country joins the Kessler Effect keep humanity from space club. Even the Indians have been able to shoot LEO space targets for a few years.
Cooper Peterson
based
Nolan Taylor
>thinks mongol rape babies are white Kek
Blake Kelly
Remember Russia's robot that turned out to be a dude in a costume?
Ayden King
I dont think anyone but Jow Forums was thinking that. Pretty sure it was due bad translation + super cuts + hot memes about space tigers. I understood it as a concept art for feature robotic programs
Jaxon Perry
The russian system entered service 1973, a full YEAR after the similar but superior Sprint missile entered sevice. As usual, russia is years behind the west, crude and unsophisticated savages as they are.
S-500 Prometeus is upgrade of S-300V ABM system. It can hit targets in space because it is an anti ballistic missile system first with back-up against atmospheric targets.
S-400 is derivative of S-300P. Main use is against atmospheric targets with secondary use against ballistic missiles.
Different systems with different objectives.
@01:18 of video, '40H6' or 40N6 in English is a missile developed for S-400 and not for S-500. It does not have an 'altitude of destruction at 250km' it however has a range of 400km with an max altitude of 185km. The 250km ranged missile is the 48N6DM being carried by Peter the Great and the Gorshkov frigates.
S-500 uses 77-N6 and 77-N6-N1 (nuclear tipped) missiles which can also be used by S-400 but not to its maximum capabilities.
Logan Jackson
>77-N6 wasnt this an option to be used on kirov and kara on their modernization plans?
