Russian next-gen S-500 air defense system could challenge U.S. stealth aircraft

Great Power War ^ | 9/28/18 | USA Features Media

[SleeperCatcher]

The S-500 Prometey, also known as 55R6M “Triumfator-M,” is being designed to augment currently-deployed S-400 air defense systems. But according to other analyses and published reports, the S-500 is believed capable of challenging the most sophisticated U.S.-made stealth fighter aircraft — the F-22 and F-35 variants, and B-2 bombers.

The National Interest reported in April 2017 that the S-500 would likely include “the 91N6A(M) battle management radar, a modified 96L6-TsP acquisition radar, as well as the new 76T6 multimode engagement and 77T6 ABM engagement radars.”

[familyop]

Well, batter up, then! Put them in Syria. Let’s see what they can do. ;-D

[Bookshelf]

I would think that we should develop (or have developed) a large pilotless drone that once over enemy territory spews smaller drones over a large landscape. Just to drive the defense system crazy. OK, you say, but the S-500 can differentiate weapons in flight. I respond the smaller drones spewed should be armed with the equivalent of an IED. It would also be possible to program them in like fashion as a cruise missile. Then you say, this will create the need for many more operations types out in Navada (or elsewhere). And I say, you have thousands of kids that would never join the military but would join the space corps to blow things up.

[sean327]

A skilled crew can detect stealth aircraft with older SAM systems. It’s a fact! Stealth platforms still have a radar return. They are not invisible. Do Russian, Chinese, Syrian, etc...crews have the skills necessary to do it? Not likely.