S-500: Russia’s Plan to Make the F-22 Fighter, F-35, and the B-21 Raider Obsolete

S-500: Russia’s Plan to Make the F-22 Fighter, F-35, and the B-21 Raider Obsolete

Key Points and Summary – Russia portrays the S-500 as a stealth-killer, but the harder problem is turning a faint, low-frequency “something’s there” cue into a precise, continuous fire-control track. Even if long-range surveillance radars can detect an F-22 or F-35, engagement-quality tracking and missile guidance are the real test—especially against fast aircraft using jamming, decoys, and tactics. Detection is not destruction, and fighters can…

S-500: Russia’s Missile System ‘Custom Built’ To Shoot Down U.S. Air Force F-22 and F-35 Fighters

Key Points and Summary – Russia’s S-500 Prometheus is billed as a new upper-tier air-defense and missile-defense system, designed to complement S-400 batteries. -Moscow claims a roughly 500-km reach and engagements up to about 200 km in altitude, with hit-to-kill interceptors for ballistic and hypersonic threats and, potentially, low-orbit targets. -Its multi-radar architecture aims to […] The post S-500: Russia’s Missile System ‘Custom Built’ T…