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Meet Russia’s S-500: Can It Kill an F-22 or F-35?
- Here’s all we know…
As to when the S-500 will first come online, Lt. Gen. Viktor Gumenny, the Deputy Commander of Russia’s Aerospace Forces, said last year that deliveries of the initial systems should occur sometime around 2020.
- Zachary Keck
- The National Interest
Russian state media have begun leaking some information about the country’s next-generation air and missile defense system, the S-500.
(This first appeared…
While maintaining that “most of the new system’s technical characteristics remain under wraps,” Sputnik this week began shedding some light on what those technical characteristics will be (although many of them have…
According to the…