The US-Russian military confrontation for decades has launched a full-scale competition on aircraft, tanks, battleships, missiles, and guns. Except for a very small number of types, Russian-made weapons are leading, most of the weapon competitions are occupied by American products. The most famous ones are American F15 fighter jets, F22 fighter jets, M1A2 tanks, Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Burke-class destroyers, Los Angeles-class submarines, and Seawolf-class nuclear submarines.
U.S. weapons dominate in all directions. This is due to the strong industrial base and strong investment of the United States. However, Russia has a long-term advantage in air defense missile technology. The performance index of S300 air defense missile is 1 and higher than that of the U.S. Patriot. 2 The anti-aircraft missile system is advanced, and it has won hundreds of orders from China. The upgraded version of the S400 air defense missile has still been favored by China. This air defense missile system even caused the NATO allies to turn over: the United States and Turkey have completely fallen out for this, and recently Russia It is claimed that the updated version of the air defense missile S500 system will be equipped with the Russian Air Force in 2020!
S400 air defense missile system, the U.S. and Turkey, a pair of ally for more than 60 years, completely overturned the
S500 air defense missile system, which is Russian homeland air defense The backbone of Russia’s claim that this missile system is equipped with missiles with a maximum range of 600 kilometers, which is worthy of being the world’s most, and the missile’s launch height exceeds the interception limit of conventional long-range air defense missiles by 27 kilometers, exceeding 100 kilometers, and can even reach low orbits. Direct attack by reconnaissance satellite!
Faced with the threat of the proliferation of hypersonic weapons around the world, Russia has set strict requirements for this air defense missile system. This missile can intercept hypersonic targets and fly at 7 kilometers per second, which is equivalent to 20 Mach high speed. The flying intercontinental missile warhead, the whole system can intercept 10 such targets at the same time, becoming a strategic air defense missile!
This is a missile in the S500 air defense missile system. The 40N6M missile
Russian S500 missile system is equipped with a variety of missiles, including 77N6N and 77N6N1 missiles, as well as 40N6M missiles. The shapes of these missiles are not the same as the traditional S300 and S400 missiles. The traditional missiles have a pointed head and a cylindrical projectile, and the tail has 4 aligned aerodynamic rudder surfaces. , The missile uses a single-stage rocket engine!
The S500 air defense missile system is obviously different. The missile uses a separate large booster, plus a conical projectile design with a small head and thick tail. This design can provide great flight stability and reduce The rudder surface size has also appeared on the Chinese Red Flag 9 missile, and the most unusual is the huge length of the new missile. The maximum length of the missile is close to 12 meters, which is almost twice that of the Chinese Red Flag 9 air defense missile!
The giant booster and the missile body make the missile thrust huge.
This missile is also a typical Russian style, relying on huge Size, to create a powerful flight speed and altitude, so as to achieve the ability to strike opponents, a missile will weigh more than 3 tons, or even 4 tons, while the common missile of the S300 system is only 1.3 tons.
The competition between the United States and Russia over the air defense missile system is that the Russians have the advantage on the surface, but this is just an illusion. The US THAAD air defense missile system for high-altitude interception missions in theaters has a range of 300 kilometers, the largest Shooting from 40 kilometers to 180 kilometers high, the total weight of the ball is only more than 600 kilograms. It can intercept high-altitude ballistic missile targets. This is the American approach. It is light and strong. If the Americans increase the weight of the missile to 1 ton, it will be easy. Surpassing the Russian S500 missile, after all, the powerful engine industry and equipment capabilities of the United States are far from comparable to Russia. Russia has no other choice but to make sacrifices in size and weight to achieve the same targets.
