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Your turn. Now give us links about their testing failures, please.

That link doesn't say anything. It has: a picture supposedly from a 2021 test against a ballistic missile (a picture of the truck system not even doing anything), and a comment from an unnamed source that it hit "a target" 500km out in 2018. No info given on what the ballistic results were. No info on what the 2018 target was (likely static).

So Russia might have claimed a successful test of the S-500, and China's claimed successful ballistic test on S-400 systems that they've bought, but none of those have been corroborated by anyone else. And if there's no public data (your link isn;t even official sources either), or if they haven't actually been tested, how am I supposed to have a link to a failed one?

But here's what one of the chat AI things says about it:
As far as publicly available information goes, the S-500 has not yet intercepted an actual ballistic missile in a test. The system is still in development and testing phases, and its full capabilities are not yet known.

Russia has conducted a number of tests of the S-500 system, but these have mainly involved testing the system's various components and subsystems, such as its radar and missile launchers. These tests are designed to validate the system's capabilities and identify any technical issues that need to be addressed before it can be deployed.
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It is possible that the S-500 has been tested against simulated ballistic missile targets, but this information has not been publicly disclosed. Russia typically does not release detailed information about its missile defense testing activities, and much of the information that is available comes from official statements and media reports.