The Russian S-550 will become the world's first mobile missile defense and anti-space defense system will become the world's first mobile specialized anti-missile (ABM) and anti-space defense system, writes RIA Novosti, citing sources in the military-industrial complex.
The weapon is created on the basis of the S-500 Prometheus. According to experts, the new air defense system will specialize in the tasks of anti-missile and anti-space defense.
“The capabilities of the development of intercepting warheads of ballistic missiles of various ranges, mainly intercontinental, as well as space attack weapons will be much higher than that of C -400 and S-500, as well as American missile defense systems – THAAD and Aegis with SM-3Block llB missiles, ”one of the specialists revealed. A second source confirmed this information and said that the work is “at an advanced stage.”
On November 9, it became known that a new anti-aircraft missile system would appear in Russia. Specialists from the country's defense ministry held a series of meetings with head of state Vladimir Putin. The President made “a special emphasis on the importance of the advanced development of domestic systems, the supply of S-350, S-500, S-550 to the army.” The ministry did not report any other information about the new system.
Also at a meeting with Putin, it became known that the first serial sample of the S-500 would be sent to the troops in the near future.