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

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

Summary and Key Points: Russia argues its S-400—and especially the newer S-500—can detect and defeat stealth aircraft, but the more important question is whether detection can become a reliable engagement-quality track. Low-frequency surveillance radar may reveal a stealth presence, yet maintaining a continuous track on a fast-moving aircraft with fire-control radar is a far harder problem. An F-22 Raptor assigned to the 1st Fighter Wing, Joint …