S-500 schedule start delaying 🙁

http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20110408/163433985.html

I am not sure Medo. A radar with enough power-aperture is necessary to do mid-curse guidance of the missiles. If the Vytiaz radar is, from scratch enough to handle shots up to 120 km, off-course there is no problem.

According the draws in the DTIG paper, the radar is small, so, it may be able to control just the “short” 9M96 missiles. Anyway, just speculations!

Did you see the article related to the update of the Moscow ABM system? It’s fascinating!

So, the integration of 9M96 missiles on S-400 systems was abandoned?

Thanks

But now S 300 PS is outdated system and it will be near future out of service.

Yeap. But S-400 are coming. Off course they will not be replaced in a 1:1 basis. In addition such a replacement ratio is not necessary.

Rodolfo do you know how many about batteries or battalions S 300V is in Service in Russia ?

No. These systems are deployed with mobile forces. Hardly identifiable, considering they are meant to be highly mobile escorts of ground forces. They “patrol” rather than defend assigned sites.

How many launcher (TEL) has a one battery of S 300PM, PM1…?

4 launchers per battery

How many battery has a one battalion ? Now Russia has 4 battalions S 400 which 32 TEL Launcher?

32 launchers = 8 batteries; so a battalion should have 2 batteries.

Now playing sums with the diclosed data:

Identified and deployed batteries (in Russia):

S-300PT : 5 batteries
S-300PS : 32 batteries (:eek:)
S-300PM : 13 batteries
S-300PM1 : 12 batteries
S-300PM2 : 1 battery (:( Not a sell success model whitin Russia)
S-400 : 8 batteries

Grand total: 71 batteries (including the S-300PT units. May be some of these units are currently gone). It’s quite likely some batteries are kept hidden and/or unidentified.

Many sources reported that S 400 may intercept ballistic targets flying at the speed to 4.8 km /s. 🙂

Most interceptions of ballistic targets are “head on”. Some can be lateral interceptions. You don’t need to chase a warhead coming from the heigths.

On the deployment of SA-10 and SA-20 batteries, we can look the deployment charts at

http://www.dtig.org/docs/SA-10.pdf

http://www.dtig.org/docs/SA-20.pdf

Although Moscow is very, very, very protected, the other important Russian cities are far from defenseless.

We should expect the number S-300PT and S-300PS steadily declining, the move of some S-300PM, S-300PM1 and S-300PM2 from the Moscow ring to areas left by the retired batteries and the arrival of S-400 batteries to Moscow and some other critical places (i.e. Vladivostok, Murmansk).
In the end, the overall number of batteries will considerably fall but the overall defense capacities will be massively boosted.

I would buy only Russian equipment. It’s not only about specs, it’s about who do you thrust. In the end, buying foreign weapons as complex as modern jet fighters will always give the seller some kind of leverage.
Therfore my choice would be some additional refurbished MiG-29.

Agreed. Serbia should negotiate, based on “Slavic Brotherhood” arguments a Russian donation FOR FREE of some second hand S-300PM1 batteries plus a number of former-Algerian MiG-29s. The current economic realities of Serbia are very constraining.