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To: FtrPilot

No. built: 1 S-500 regiment in service

The cost for one S-500 system was estimated be around $700-$800 million dollars in 2020, and up to $2.5 billion in 2023.

Operational range 600 km

The S-500 is designed for intercepting and destroying intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as hypersonic cruise missiles and aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, low Earth orbit satellites, space weapons launched from hypersonic aircraft, and hypersonic orbital platforms

Russia claims that the S-500 is capable of intercepting all types of modern hypersonic weapons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-500_missile_system


2,957 posted on 06/12/2024 3:07:29 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Russia claims that the S-500 is capable of intercepting all types of modern hypersonic weapons.

But can it intercept 20 drones flying at 100 kmh?

2,958 posted on 06/12/2024 3:48:36 PM PDT by FtrPilot
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