Voices of alarm are growing in response to what appears to be Moscow has reportedly already released its ‘fire titan’one of the aces up the sleeve of the Russian arsenal in the form of advanced surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems. We are talking about the replacement of the S-400 series and the usual S-300, the S-500 Prometheus, called to counter Western weapons that help defend Ukraine.
According to what is reported geek week in its Polish edition, echoing a post by the military blog Defense Blog, Russia has already presented the fifth generation systemduring the arms fair military event taking place in the capital, the Army-2024 International Military-Technical Forum. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had already announced that two variants would be available by the end of 2024.
As stated in the information cited, Russia You would already have one of these systems installed at a key point As the course of the conflict in Ukraine has shown: near the Crimean bridge. An infrastructure that has accumulated numerous attacks and sabotages since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
A weapon designed to destroy satellites and fifth-generation fighters
He Russian manufacturer Almaz-Antey is behind the development and design of the S-500 SAMa weapon that dates back a long way and can be seen as the genesis of what would eventually lead to the evolution of the S-500. In the Cold War, the Soviets relied on the S-200 Angara high-altitude SAM system to defend against enemy bombers. The Angara became operational in the mid-1960s, replacing the country’s B-25 Berkut.
As soon as the Angara was operational, the Soviets began developing an even more sophisticated successor: the S-300 was intended to counter emerging threats such as new fourth-generation fighter jets from the West. The S-300 SAM was followed by the S-400.
This is how it was derived in the S-500 Prometheusa weapon that stands out largely for the magnitude of its objectives. Not only is it designed to defeat fifth-generation aircraft, but also to take down low-orbit satellites..
