S 500 Missile System

• S 500 Missile System Highlights
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•  The S-500 Prometheus (Russian: C-500 Прометей), also known as 55R6M "Triumfator-M", is a Russian surface-to-air missile/anti-ballistic missile system supplementing the S-400 and the A-235 ABM missile system. The S-500 was developed by the Almaz-Antey Air Defence Concern. 
• Initially planned to be in production by 2014, the first unit entered service in 2021 with the 15th Aerospace Army.  Russia claims that the S-500 is capable of intercepting all types of modern hypersonic weapons, and has claimed to have successfully tested such capability. Russia is reportedly planning to deploy the S-500 alongside the planned.
• S-550 missile system as part of its air defense network.
• The S-500 is designed for intercepting and destroying ballistic missiles, as well as hypersonic cruise missiles and aircraft. With a planned range of 600 km for anti-ballistic missile (ABM) and 500 km  for air defense, the S-500 was envisaged to be able to detect and simultaneously engage up to 10 ballistic hypersonic targets flying at up to a maximum of 7 km/s. 
•  The altitude of a target engaged is claimed to be as high as 180–200 km. However, as of 2023, the S-500's ability to intercept hypersonic missiles had not yet been tested.  Other targets it has been announced to defend against include unmanned aerial vehicles, low Earth orbit satellites, space weapons launched from hypersonic aircraft, and hypersonic orbital platforms. It is to have a response time of less than 4 seconds.
• Components
• The S-500 consists of
• 77P6 launch vehicle, based on the BAZ-69096 10x10 truck
• 55K6MA and 85Zh6-2 command posts, based on BAZ-69092-12 6x6
• 91N6A(M) acquisition and battle management radar, a modification of the 91N6 (Big Bird) towed by the BAZ-6403.01 8x8 tractor
• 96L6-TsP acquisition radar, an upgraded version of the 96L6 (Cheese Board) on BAZ-69096 10x10
• 76T6 multimode engagement radar on BAZ-6909-022 8x8
• 77T6 ABM engagement radar on BAZ-69096 10x10
• The missiles used by the system are:
• 40N6M - anti-aircraft role
• 77N6 / 77N6-N1 - anti-ballistic or anti-satellite role.