Certainly it looks bigger than the Kh-15 (Kh-101 should be bigger) and with an un-symmetrical head (perhaps for reducing the RCS). So (likely) you have found the first picture of the Kh-101. Congratulations.

I took some images from the video for look on the surveillance radar:

It seems different from the 96L6 and from the 96N6 Gamma-S1E. So, may be it is the so called “91N6E long-range surveillance radar”.

Look at this paragraph taken that was from http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070927/81336710.html

A regular S-400 battalion comprises at least eight launchers and 32 missiles and a mobile command post, according to various sources.

So, as 32/8 = 4 this seems to indicate that the small 9M96 missiles have still not been deployed. So what happened with these missiles?

I want this computer for my Kalman filtres. :confused: 😀

On the S-400 limited anti-ICBM potential:

The existing S-400s are currently undergoing capability enhancements for interoperability with the space forces assets.

The Russian armed forces say that the S-400 can potentially be used against strategic ballistic missiles after separation of warheads. In that role the S-400s will be co-operating with the A-135 anti-missile system in service with the Russian Space Forces. Provision is made for the S-400s to receive targeting information on approaching space threats from the Russian Space Forces in an automatic mode.

The S-400/A-135 will be the first block of the Air and Space Defence (ASD) system, a future structure concept recently formulated by the Russian defence ministry. The latter sa

So the key arises from the targeting data provided by the A-135 system. Without the Don-2Np radar its chances against a ICBM warhead are near zero. Can the hypothetical S-500 system do something independently? I very doubt although it can have potential against MRBM.

On the new mystery-missiles

MOSCOW. April 6 (Interfax-AVN) – The Fakel Design Bureau has developed a new missile, capable of engaging any attack means, which will take the Russian air defense system to a qualitatively new level, Fakel Designer General Vladimir Svetlov said.

“Several of our missiles, being tested, will considerably boost combat capabilities of famous Russian air defense missile systems. The design bureau has also developed a missile for the new air defense missile system. We believe that it will become the leader among air defense missiles. Its capabilities and even designation are classified. I believe that the missile will remain the leader for decades to come. The missile will be capable of killing any attack means,” Svetlov said in an interview with the Nedelya supplement to the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper.

So, may be, there is something undeclared and unspecified that will fit in the so-called S-500.

On the 96L6 radar

Work on the 96L6 began in the second half of the 1980s, when Boris Vasilyevics Bunkin, the general designer of CKB Almaz defined the requirements for a surveillance radar to form part of the new S-400 missile system. The design of the new radar was assigned to the Lira design bureau, which is a part of LEMZ – the Lianozovskiz Elektromekhanicseskij Zavod (Lianozovo Elektromechanical Factory). Lira and LEMZ are part of the financial-industrial group Oboronitelniye Sistemi (Defence Systems).

During the development and trials stage OKR (Opitno-Konstruktorskaya Rabota) of the programme, the new radar was designated VVO (Vsevisotniy Obnaruzhitel = detector for all altitudes).

The requirements for the VVO were very rigorous. The team headed by the late main designer Yuriy Fyodorovics Lisin based its design on research by Professor VI Vinokurov into the detection of difficult signals.

Another organisation involved with the development programme was the scientific research experimental establishment (Naucsno-Issledovatelskaya Eksperimentalnaya Rabota) Slozhnost (Complexity), whose general designers are BV Bunkin and Yuriy Aleksandrovics Kuznecov.

An experimental radar was built and tested in a series of trials against Yak-52 training aircraft. Specialists from other Russian radar establishments such as LETI, NII-2 MO, NII-3 MO, UPI, CNIIRES and VNIIRT participated in the trials, and the resulting data influenced the future development of radar technology in what was then the Soviet Union.

In 1988, representatives of the main developing organisation and the customer signed agreement giving the go-ahead for wideband radar technology, based on this earlier research to be used in the VVO programme. As a result of theoretical and experimental research, a database of difficult signals was developed, along with signal processing hardware with a speed of 10 billion operations per second, plus other components.

In 1991, the Lira design bureau built a prototype of the VVO radar. This started operation in early 1992, and in April of that year was demonstrated against low-altitude targets. Later that year systems were delivered for trials at the training centre of NII-2, the scientific research institute of the Russian air-defence forces. The system was displayed in model form at the MAKS 97 defence exhibition.

When the system enters service it will replace the 5N66M and 76N6 (NVO/NVO-M) radars currently used for the detection of low-flying targets. (The 76N6 is known to NATO as ‘Clam Shell’.) Both had been developed in the early 1970s by the design bureau of the LEMZ factory. Later the 96L6 will replace the 19Zh6/35D6/36D6 family (ST-68U/-68UM) of all-round surveillance radars, which were developed and produced in Ukraine by NPO Iskra.

The role of the 96L6 is the detection of air targets and measuring of their azimuth, elevation and range. It can be used with the S-300PMU surface-to-air (SAM) system, can autonomously assign targets for the 90Zh6E, 90Zh6E1 and 90Zh6E2 (S-300PMU-1 and later) air-defence missile complexes, and can be connected with the Baykal-1E and Senezh-M1E automated command and control systems or the radiotechnical forces’ Osnova-1E and Polye-E command posts.

It can pass information about a wide spectrum of the aerial targets, including aircraft, helicopters, UAVs and missiles, to the 30N6E, 30N6E1, 30N6E2 (‘Flap Lid’) series of tracking and missile guidance radars.

The 96L6 is very effective against low flying targets and against targets in the medium and high altitudes. It maintains its performance in the presence of heavy jamming, and has a very low false-alarm rate.

Targets can be tracked at elevations from 60º down to 0º, but a minimum of -3º is available as an option. The antenna uses several beams when scanning in elevation. For detection of very low flying targets, or if the radar is deployed in a wooded area, the antenna can be mounted on a 966AA14 elevated tower. The latter consists of a 40V6M tower mounted on a MAZ-537G (74106) truck.

There are two versions of the 96L6 – one which is installed on a single vehicle, and another which uses two vehicles.

The single-vehicle variant consists of:

• a 966AA01 antenna array;

• a 966FF03 shelter which houses the receiving, transmitting and information-processing subsystems, an operator console, communication and IFF systems and a ZIP-O repair set;

• a TM966 vehicle based on a Type 7930 Astrolog wheeled chassis with a SEP-2L generator and power-distribution system; and

• a set of cables.

The two-vehicle version consists of:

• a truck and trailer-mounted 966AA00 antenna set incorporating the 966AA01 antenna, an SES-75, SES-75M or equivalent model of electrical generator and power-distribution system, plus cables; and

• a truck and trailer-mounted 966FF00 installation incorporating the 966FF03 shelter and SES-75/-75M electrical system.

The two vehicles can be deployed up to 100m apart.

Unfortunately all this information is known and rather old. We are always iterating over and over with just the same info. Nothing really new except a few bits per year.

“While working on the S-400, we have been developing a fifth-generation air defense system, which will be more compact, more maneuverable, and will certainly have superior technical characteristics,” Colonel General Alexander Zelin said. The Air Force commander said major enhancements would be made to the system’s electronic components. “The enhancement of electronics will allow the systems to see farther, higher and react quicker, which will significantly expand the range of their capabilities, including repelling strikes from space,” Zelin said. According to Zelin, the new missile system will combine elements of air, missile and space defense, and will be developed by the Almaz-Antei air defense consortium.

According some “gossip” from a friend that speaks Russian and chat on the issue in Russian forums and places like this, the S-500 is nothing more than an evolution from S-400 that fits more or less on the words from Zelin.
So, “enhancement of electronics” means some evolutive iterations on the new radars, even more optimized algorithms and much much faster computers. Furthermore, “more compact, more maneuverable” means a new two stage missile aimed at replacing the 48N6 birds. It would combine the small 9M83 booster with a 9M96 dart in the same way a 40n6 would combine the 9M82 booster with a 9M96 style second stage. So it might involve large and small 9M96 “small missiles” and large and small two-stage “big missiles”, including 9M96 type darts. I insist, just RUMORS but it sound as a feasible next iteration for the prolific S300 family.

I am not sure the rotating radar is the 96L6. See this picture of such a radar

Now look at the time 2:15 on the video. This radar seems to be thicker than the one of the photo and have some different stuffs on the top of the antenna. I will not discard the 96L6 hypothesis but it may be also the 91N6.
Also it seems to have a “Bill Board” flavor (look its back, time 1:34), so it might have received some influence from the S-300V (that’s just a personal hypothesis).

A Russian video in English.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ripHZ58Jp-w

Nothing really new, but an interesting filmation of the surveillance radar (9196 ?) rotating . Note also that the engagement radar near the big one looks very similat to the Flap Lid.