Agreed 100%

Nice pics , they need to develop a dual X and L band radar , X band certainly provides a higher resolution of the target and better discrimination viz a viz decoys etc.

Any info on the specs of the radar ?

The Russian design philosophy calls for a L-band surveillance radar and an X-band engagement radar. I.e. S-300s and S-400 systems.
So, I think S-500 will comprise something like a Gamma-DE surveillance AESA and the Mars as the engagement radar.
Specs? Still searching.

The military has ambitious fielding plans for the system. The previous defense procurement program called for acquisition of 23 Triumf battalions through 2015. But late last month Popovkin announced that the military now plans to buy 56 battalions of S-400s under the new defense procurement program through 2020.

😮 Money seems not to be an issue anymore.

All the Oranges accomplished was bankrupt the country, make big international debts while accomplishing nothing, bring relationship with bigger and most important neighbor to utter ****…just look how many votes Ushenko got, should tell you a lot.

That’s the plain REALITY, as hard as it sounds. The Oranges, in practice dilapidated the formerly huge Ukrainian industrial potential. Oranges just offered the loser-ideology that trying to upset Russia is great. What a pathetic behavior.

Respect to the Ukraynia Slava cruiser, the best decision is to hand it to Russia on the condition the ship is completed in Nikolayev with Russian funds. In this way Russia gets the cruiser and Ukrainian gets work, money and, to a certain degree, a refurbishment of their yards.

Noooo. But Japan is really feeling the heat from mainland Asia these days

But the Japanese are stiring the Kurils issue. That’s against Russia, not against mainland Asia. So,… to distract from internal problems, how likely is a “Galtieri Made in Japan”?

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20110301/162818449.html

So, the improvement of the S-300V family is not a dead avenue. I thought, the program was terminated after the Almaz-Antei fusion.

On Soviet & Russian ABM programs.

http://military.tomsk.ru/blog/index-26.html

Very informative.

It’s good that the S-400s are going to the Far East.

Moscow has plenty of S-300PM units that could be moved around should something happened on the Western side of the country.

Yes. Look at SOC blog. Moscow looks overdefended and many important spots are “naked”.

At the end of one of the videos above, it mentions the S-500 will be able to hit targets in space…? ASAT possibility?

I hope so!