Dubai Airshow: the first S-550s will be put into service in the Russian army until 2025
The first mobile specialized strategic missile defense system (ABM) The S-550 will be put into service with the Russian army until 2025. A source close to the Russian Ministry of Defense told TASS on the sidelines of the Dubai Airshow 2021 international air show.
According to him, the S-550 has already been created in hardware. Its delivery is envisaged under the state armaments program until 2027. The first sample will be delivered to the Russian Aerospace Forces within four years.
The source explained that initially it is planned to supply the S-550 brigade set. It will use a mobile launcher with a hypersonic missile. A naval version of the complex, according to the agency's interlocutor, is not envisaged.
The fact that a new anti-aircraft missile system S-550 will appear in Russia became known on Tuesday, November 9. The Ministry of Defense reported that work is underway to create it.
According to a RIA Novosti source, the S-550 will be able to intercept warheads of ballistic missiles of various ranges, mainly intercontinental ones, and the means of attack will be much higher. than the S-400, S-500 and American missile defense systems – THAAD and Aegis with SM-3Block llB missiles.