Russia tests new S-400 missile

And the MOSTinteresting part is that it was tested in conjunction with the Kolchuga passive detection system. (Isn’t that a Ukranian product?)

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Date Posted: 06-May-2004

JANE’S DEFENCE WEEKLY – MAY 12, 2004

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Moscow reveals new missile for S-400 system
JAMES C O’HALLORAN Editor Jane’s Land Based Air Defence
London

A new missile for the Russian S-400 (Triumph) low-to-high-altitude air-defence system was launched on 30 April at the Kapustin Yar Missile Test Range (KYMTR), JDW has learned.

Dubbed 48N6DM the missile is an upgraded version of the long-range 48N6 and is manufactured by the Fakel Machine Design Bureau – part of the new Almaz/Antei Concern of Air-Defence (PVO Concern) – which are the primary contractors for the S-400 Triumph (JDW 21 May 2003). The S-400 is designed to detect and destroy targets at ranges up to 400km.

The trials at the KYMTR are part of a continuing series of trials aimed at S-400 initial operational capability by 2005. Other missiles also associated with the system include the 9M96, 9M96M, 48N6 and 40N6.

When fully operational, the S-400 system will form the new baseline for Russian air defence for the foreseeable future, at least up to 2020 or even 2025.

Lt Gen Alexander Gorkov, Chief of Air Defence of the Russian Federation Air Forces has confirmed that the S-400 system trials also included the use of the Kolchuga passive electronic warfare system. Kolchuga allows the 48N6DM missiles to engage their targets using information fed to the S-400’s targeting system whereby the missile launch is performed without emitting a radar signature from a single radar, in total electro-magnetic silence.

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