With a planned range of 600 km (370 mi) for anti-ballistic missile (ABM) and 500 km (310 mi) for air defense, the S-500 was envisaged to be able to detect and simultaneously engage up to 10 ballistic hypersonic targets.
The S-500 is to have a response time of less than 4 seconds, compared to the S-400's of less than 10.
With an engagement range of 310 miles, russia may initially decide to deploy the S-500s on russian soil.
If so, the russians will be disappointed when they fail at shooting down any ATACMs.
However, if deployed on ruzzian soil, S-500s will definitely be a threat to all Ukrainian aircraft flying withing 300 miles of the border.
S-500s will be as effective as the S300Xs and the S400s that preceded them - they will be defeated one way or another.
S-500s will be greatly HARMed
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Will Shoigu “come to an end” in May?
This opinion was expressed in conversations with us by several military men close to General Mikhail Teplinsky. They believe that Vladimir Putin will not forgive Sergei Shoigu for the “deeds” of his arrested deputy Timur Ivanov and will replace the Minister of Defense after his inauguration on May 7.
“We are confident that Vladimir Vladimirovich will dismiss Shoigu. This issue has long been overdue, and now such events are happening that it is impossible to make such a decision... I think that Shoigu will come to an end as a minister,” said one of our interlocutors.
Sources in the Kremlin note that Shoigu’s resignation is possible, but the situation on this issue is ambiguous. On the one hand, our successes at the front, which are recognized even in Ukraine, speak in favor of Sergei Kuzhugetovich.
Plus, Shoigu promises the President advances in new sectors of the front ( although, as we wrote, there may be problems there ).
On the other hand, Shoigu’s problems are not limited to the fact that a person close to the Minister of Defense turned out to be a thief and, possibly, a traitor.
“We are making progress at the front, which is good. But we have many problems. The enemy is shooting at Crimea as he wants, and we still can’t begin to properly shoot down the missiles that fly there.
“Our drones fly as they please throughout Russia. We are awaiting the inauguration of Vladimir Vladimirovich and Victory Day with great anxiety.
“And we don’t know where the Kiev regime will strike these days. Our Crimean Bridge is under threat. And Sergei Kuzhugetovich has no answer to the question of how to protect him,” the interlocutor in the AP listed the problems.
He doesn’t know whether Putin will fire Shoigu. But he claims that the President has already been presented ( “just in case” ) with a list of those who could become the new defense minister.
We suggested that there might be the name of General Teplinsky, who, as is known, has long been a supporter of Shoigu’s resignation. But the interlocutor refused to name names.
And he emphasized that “the existence of such a list does not mean that Sergei Kuzhugetovich will lose his post.”