S-300VM missile system
| S-300VM Antey 2500 NATO reporting name: SA-23 Gladiator\Giant | |
|---|---|
 Antey-2500 SAM at MAKS-2011 | |
| Type | Mobile surface-to-air missile/anti-ballistic missile system |
| Place of origin | Russia |
| Service history | |
| In service | 2013-present |
| Used by | See Operators |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Almaz-Antey |
| Designed | 2000s |
| Manufacturer | Almaz-Antey |
| Unit cost | US$120 million (1999)[1] |
| Produced | 2013-present |
| Variants | See Variants |
| Specifications | |
Operational range | 200 (250) km[2] against MRBMs |
| 9M82M missile | |
|---|---|
| Type | Surface-to-air missile |
| Place of origin | Russia |
| Service history | |
| In service | 2013-present |
| Used by | See Operators |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Almaz-Antey |
| Designed | 2000s |
| Manufacturer | Almaz-Antey |
| Produced | 2013-present |
| Variants | 9M82M, 9M83M |
| Specifications (9M82M[3]) | |
Operational range | 200 kilometres (120 mi) |
| Flight altitude | 30,000 metres (98,000 ft) |
The S-300VM "Antey-2500" (NATO reporting name SA-23 Gladiator\Giant) is a Russian anti-ballistic missile system. The system is designed to defeat short- and medium-range ballistic missile, aeroballistic, and cruise missiles, fixed-wing aircraft, as well as loitering ECM platforms and precision-guided munitions.
Structure
Components
The Antey-2500 air defense missile system features:
- High degree of battle performance automation owing to high-speed digital computers
- Passive electronically scanned array radars with advanced data processing methods
- High ECM immunity
- High mobility and autonomous operation
- High firepower potential, irrespective of air attack tactics or sequence
- Vertical launch from a special transport launch canister
- Maintenance-free operation of missiles for at least ten years
- Capability to defeat ballistic missile individual warheads
- Inertial guidance with radio command mid-course update and semi-active radar homing at the terminal phase
- Focused detonation of the missile warhead
The Antey-2500 system comprises:
- Command post
- Circular and sector scan radars
- Multichannel missile guidance station (MMGS) have 24 channels for illumination of 24 targets
- 9A82M launcher (typical amount 8) includes radar of illumination and targeting as well as *brains* of the radar[4]
- 9A83M launcher (typical amount 12) includes radar of illumination and targeting as well as *brains* of the radar[4]
- 9A84M and 9A85M loader-launcher (technically no more than 24)
- 9M82M and 9M83M air defense missiles
- Maintenance, repair, and transport vehicles
- Group SPTA set
- Electronic trainer for MMGS operators
- Set of missile handling equipment
Technical ability to use 1-2 additional battalions.
One system configuration - external command post, CP of the S-300V and every radars of S-300V and the outside radars, other external elements. This is the central core, for it served a few battalions of S-300V system. All battalions at full strength of S-300V system (CP of the S-300V and every radars of the S-300V, and a few launchers with radars, and a few launchers without radars).[5]
Missile
The 9M82M missile is intended to defeat tactical, theater and medium range ballistic missiles, as well as aerodynamic targets at a range of up to 200 km. The Antey-2500 system is mounted on a tracked cross-country vehicle equipped with self-contained power supply and navigation systems, as well as surveying and positioning equipment.
S-300 system family tree
| S-300 Family | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S-300V | S-300P | S-300F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S-300V1 | S-300V2 | S-300PT | S-300PS | Fort | Rif | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S-300VM | S-300PT-1 | S-300PM | S-300PMU | Fort-M | Rif-M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorit-S | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S-300VM1 | S-300VM2 | S-300PT-1A | S-300PM1 | S-300PMU1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Antey 2500 | S-300PM2 | S-300PMU2 | Russian Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S-300V4 | Favorit | Export Version | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S-300VMD | S-400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operational history
In early October 2016, a battery of Russian S-300V4 missile system was deployed to Syria,[6] at the Russian naval base in Tartus.[7]
Variants
- S-300V: entered service in 1983; 100 km range
- S-300VM: 250 km range[8]
- S-300VMD: 350 km range
- S-300V4: in service since 2014; 400[9][10] km range
Operators
Current operators
Russia : ordered more than three S-300V4 divisions by 2015[11]
- 77th Airdefence Brigade (Korenovsk) and 988th Airdefence Regiment (Gyumri) in the Southern Military District[12][13]
- 202nd Airdefence Brigade (Naro Fominsk) and 1545th Airdefence Regiment (Znamensk) in the Western Military District
- 1724th Airdefence Regiment (Birobidzhan & Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) and air defense unit stationed in the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Eastern Military District[14]
- 28th Airdefence Brigade (Mirnij / Kirovsk Region) in the Central Military District
- Modernization of all S-300V to the version S-300V4 was to end in 2012.[15]
Egypt : The S-300VM "Antey-2500" missile system was ordered in 2014, as part of a multi-billion Egyptian-Russian arms deal signed later that year.[16][17] The $1 billion contract comprises 4 batteries, a command post and other external elements.[18][19] In 2015, Russia started delivering the system components, Egyptian soldiers began their training in Russian training centers.[20] By the end of 2017, all batteries were delivered to Egypt.[21] Russia is in talks with Egypt on the delivery of additional Antey-2500 systems.[22]
Venezuela: 2 S-300VM in 1 air defense battalion at Base Aérea Militar Capitán Manuel Ríos[23]
India: 6 S-300VM Regiments. 18 Launchers in each regiment. Bought in late 2006.
Potential operators
Algeria: In November 2015 Algeria was negotiating the purchase of several battalions of this system.[24]
Failed bids
Turkey: Turkey was in talks with Russian officials for a co-production deal before the Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown incident.[25][26]
Saudi Arabia: Russia has offered Saudi Arabia the S-300VM as first operator.[clarification needed][27]
See also
- List of medium-range and long-range SAMs
- S-300 missile system
- Vityaz missile system
- S-400 missile system
- S-500 missile system
- Arrow (Israeli missile)
- Medium Extended Air Defense System
- Ground-Based Midcourse Defense
References
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- ^ http://www.almaz-antey.ru/en/catalogue/millitary_catalogue/[permanent dead link]
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- ^ a b "C- 300В - Пусковая установка 9А83 и 9А82". pvo.guns.ru.
- ^ "Зенитно-ракетная система С-300В / С-300ВМ Антей-2500 - Ракетная техника". rbase.new-factoria.ru.
- ^ Ryan Browne; Barbara Starr. "Russia ships new anti-missile system to Syria". CNN.
- ^ "Истерика США от размещения С-300ВМ в Сирии имеет исчерпывающее объяснение". vz.ru.
- ^ S-300VM Antey-2500 SA-23 Gladiator Giant air defense missile system[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Ракетный комплекс С300В4 подтвердил способность поражать цели до 400 км, сообщает Минобороны РФ". 10 January 2015.
- ^ "Russian Aerospace Force receives over 30 planes and helicopters in 2016".
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- ^ "Шойгу: оснащенность Российской армии современным оружием и техникой за год выросла на 7%".
- ^ "ЦАМТО / Новости / Войска ПВО Южного военного округа перевооружаются на новую технику". www.armstrade.org.
- ^ https://tass.com/defense/1096449
- ^ "Модернизация до уровня ЗРС С-300В4 ПВО сухопутных войск полностью завершится в 2012 году". ИА «Оружие России».
- ^ "Egypt, Russia Negotiating Missile Sale". defensenews. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ ""Рособоронэкспорт" поставит в Египет зенитные системы С-300ВМ". Рамблер-Новости. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ "ТАСС: Армия и ОПК – Источник: Россия поставит Египту полк систем ПВО "Антей-2500" до конца 2016 года". ТАСС. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ "В вооружениях не стесняться". kommersant. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "According sources, Russia would start deliveries of Antey-2500 missile systems to Egypt". 6 March 2015.
- ^ Kommersant. "Те, кто сегодня критикует Иран, будут бороться за него". Retrieved 7 February 2018.
- ^ "Russia in talks with Turkey and Egypt for the sale of the S-400". newsru.com. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ Денис Тельманов. "Венесуэла получила российский комплекс . С-300ВМ". Известия. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ "Вооруженные средства". 19 October 2015. p. 9 – via Kommersant.
- ^ http://in.rbth.com/news/2015/05/06/turkey_shows_interest_in_russian_air_defense_systems_russias_arms_export_42987.html[permanent dead link]
- ^ Keck, Zachary (6 May 2015). "NATO Beware: Turkey May Buy Russia's S-300 Air Defense System".
- ^ "::". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- Russia's Arms Catalog 2004
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