Russia is developing the S-500 with a view of its operation in the next 25 years.
MOSCOW, November 27.
/TASS/. Russia will complete its work on the most advanced S-500 anti-aircraft
missile system in 2021, Aerospace Force Deputy Commander-in-Chief
Lieutenant-General Andrei Yudin said in an interview with the Defense
Ministry’s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Friday.
"It should be
noted that the work on developing the S-500 mobile air defense and
anti-ballistic missile system is scheduled to be completed in 2021," the
general said.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister
Yuri Borisov said at the Army-2020 international arms show that the S-500
system was already undergoing state trials and work was underway to purchase
parts for its serial production.
Russian Deputy
Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko said in February that military specialists
had held the trials of the world’s unrivaled surface-to-air missiles for the
latest S-500 air defense system last year.
The deputy defense
minister said in December 2019 that the preliminary tests of the S-500
anti-aircraft missile system would begin in 2020 and the commencement of its
serial deliveries to the troops was scheduled for 2025.
Russian Defense
Minister Sergei Shoigu earlier said that the deliveries of the latest S-500
surface-to-air missile systems to the troops would begin in 2020. Russia has
been training specialists to learn to operate the new system at the Military
Academy of the Aerospace Force in Tver since 2017.
Russia is developing
the S-500 with a view of its operation in the next 25 years. As the Western
media reported, the new Russian missile system struck the target at a range of
481.2 km or 80 km more compared to any existing missile system.
Source: ITAR-TASS
27-11-2020
