Austin, with all due respect, you are quoting 2010 report, not 2011. In 2011 report 40N6 missile isn’t mentioned at all. With all due respect to Ashurbeili, the information in his interviews is far from exactly true. The actual 2010 report mentions only the fact that state acceptance trials of 40N6 have started and expected to finished in 2011. We know now that the trials were not finished in 2011.
In 2009-2011 eight missiles were produced for live firing tests. Only one launch was considered succesful, missile exploding in the vicinity of the target at 350 km distance. The production of 40N6 missiles for 2012 was scaled down from 12 to 10 to 8, only 4 of them were regarded as test missiles the other 4 were regarded as pre-production. Many missile components haven’t been tested to full extent. Nevertheless, A-A is going to push the into production. For comparison, around 200 live firings were used during tests of S-200 system. Of course, it was then and now is now.
Regarding 55R6M (S-500) the 2011 report says the following: Mock-ups and models of the main components has been carried out, documentation in preparation, some components being manufactured.
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