Weapons against ATACMS. Will the Russian troops fire Ukraine with SCRC S-500 "Prometheus"
The invaders will use the SPR in the experimental mode, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov. "The air defense system increases is quite obvious and clear. The most recent now-the elements of the C-500 have appeared. This is research," he said. The head of military intelligence believes that advanced complexes will not help the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to escape from Western weapons.
The occupiers "drink Borjomi" and soon they "feel everything", he added. It is worth noting that C-300/400 anti-aircraft missile systems were helpless in front of the US Ballistic Missiles ATCMS. Only on the night of June 10, the forces of Ukraine's defense struck the S-400 missile division near Dzhankoy and two C-300 divisions near the Black Sea and Evpatoria. Another attack took place on June 13: the Ukrainian military hit the S-300 and C-400 SCRC near the Belbek airfield.
Good results were given by HIMARS RSDs on the military sites of the Russian Army in Belgorod and Kursk regions. The Armed Forces managed to hit the S-300 installations near the village of May (20 km from the border) and in the center of management in Shebekino of Belgorod region, as well as on a column of trucks in Kursk region. After that, the number of arrivals C-300 on Kharkiv decreased. The Russian command always presents any weapons as having no analogues in the world.
But the course of the full-scale war in Ukraine has repeatedly denied the hopes of the Kremlin, says the former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the retired Lieutenant General Igor Romanenko. "So they talked about the C-400, and now they have burned metal in the Crimea. The old ATACMS missiles beat quite exactly on a relatively new SPR, so this confrontation is lost," the expert notes. Russia values the advanced complexes of C-500, because there are really few.
In Crimea, they will check the battle stability, which will allow the occupiers to decide whether to protect them strategic objects in Moscow, he continues. Defense Express notes that Prometheus C-500 will only partially reduce the efficiency of US missiles atacms. SCR missiles do not carry out kinetic interceptions, but only a close blast. The ammunition can be compared to the GEM-T missile for Patriot Pac 2, for which they first declared the possibility of intercepting ballistic missiles.
Subsequently, it turned out that GEM-T missiles against ballistics were not particularly effective. American developers have implemented a fairly expensive project to create kinetic interceptors in PAC-3 missiles. This projectile showed itself well against Russian aerobalist missiles "dagger". Igor Romanenko adds that the C-500 did not have time to be processed under the defeat of land goals. The main task of the Russian Federation is to check them for their intended purpose.
On this basis, you should not expect strokes in the cities of Ukraine, as in the case of S-300 SPR. Crimea also stores the carriers of Circon and Iskander. Open sources state that the C-500 "Prometheus" is the most modern anti-aircraft complex of a large radius of action in the arms of the army of Russia. The first and only C-500 SPR was handed over to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in October 2021-he entered the combat duty for the cover of Moscow and the region.
The Air-Anti-AVRC uses the 40n6 S-400 SPR missiles, so their appearance will not radically change the state of affairs. The anti-rocket part of the C-500 can improve the ability of Russian complexes to intercept ballistic missiles. Anti-aircraft missiles 77H6-N Prometheus are equipped with a self-esteem based on its own board radar, which sees ballistic and hypersonic targets at speeds up to 7 km/s at a distance of up to 600 kilometers and up to 200 km.
The Kremlin planned that in 2020 he would have 10 such installations, but the delivery time was torn. Recall that the Russians seek to protect the Crimean bridge from the Armed Forces. Two zones of protective structures have been installed at both ends of the structure, and since the beginning of June 2024, tens of meters from the supports appeared lines of Bonov barriers and about a dozen barges.