S-300VM
S-300VM Antey 2500 NATO reporting name: SA-23 Gladiator\Giant | |
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Antey-2500 SAM at MAKS-2011 | |
Type | Transportable SAM system |
Place of origin | Russia |
Service history | |
In service | 2013 |
Used by | See Operators |
Production history | |
Designer | Almaz-Antey |
Designed | 2000s |
Manufacturer | Almaz-Antey |
Unit cost | US$120 million (1999)[1] |
Produced | 2013 |
Variants | See Variants |
Specifications | |
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Operational range | 200 (250)km[2] against MRBMs |
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.
Missile
S-300VM | |
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Type | Surface-to-air missile |
Place of origin | Russia |
Service history | |
In service | 2013 |
Used by | See Operators |
Production history | |
Designer | Almaz-Antey |
Designed | 2000s |
Manufacturer | Almaz-Antey |
Produced | 2013 |
Variants | 9M82M, 9M83M |
Specifications (9M82M[3]) | |
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Operational range | 200 kilometres (120 mi) |
Flight altitude | 30,000 metres (98,000 ft) |
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.
System characteristics
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[5]
- 9A84M 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).[6]
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Variants
- S-300V: entered service in 1983; 100 km range
- S-300VM: 200 km range[7]
- S-300VMD: 300 km range
- S-300V4: in service since 2013; 400[8][9] km range
Operators
Current operators
- Egypt : Antey-2500, Entered service in November 2014 [10][11][12]
- India : It bought S-300VM anti-missile platforms from Russia.[13][14]
- Iran: Russia is offering Iran the S-300VM instead of the S-300PMU1 to avoid a lawsuit over the cancellation of the latter.[15][16] Recently in 2015/16 both S300PMU and S300VM are sold to Iran.
- Russia : ordered more than three S-300V4 divisions by 2015[17]
- Venezuela: 2 S-300VM in 1 air defense battalion[23]
Potential operators
- Algeria: In November 2015 Algeria was negotiating the purchase of several divisions of this system.[24]
Cancelled
- 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.[27]
Operational deployment
In early October 2016, a battery of Russian S-300V4 air defense missile launchers were deployed to Syria,[28][29] at the Russian naval base in Tartus.[30]
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.deagel.com/Air-Defense-Systems/S-300VM_a000372005.aspx/
- ↑ http://www.almaz-antey.ru/en/catalogue/millitary_catalogue/
- ↑ "S-300V/Antey 2500 (SA-12 'Gladiator/Giant')". Jane's Information Group. 13 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
- ↑ http://pvo.guns.ru/s300v/s300v_5.htm
- ↑ http://pvo.guns.ru/s300v/s300v_5.htm
- ↑ http://rbase.new-factoria.ru/missile/wobb/c300v/c300v.shtml
- ↑ S-300VM Antey-2500 SA-23 Gladiator Giant air defense missile system
- ↑ http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20150110/1041996381.html
- ↑ http://missilethreat.com/russian-army-puts-service-long-range-missile-s-300v4-system-source/
- ↑ ""Алмаз-Антей": российская зенитная ракетная система "Антей-2500" поствлена в Египет". ТАСС. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ↑ "Алмаз-Антей : российская зенитная ракетная система Антей-2500 поствлена в Египет". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ↑ ""Алмаз-Антей": российская зенитная ракетная система "Антей-2500" поствлена в Египет". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ↑ "Ballistic Missile Defence for India". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ↑ India’s Missile Defense: Is the Game Worth the Candle?
- ↑ "Russia Offers Iran New Replacement for S-300 – Paper". RIANOVOSTI. 22 June 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ↑ "Lenta.ru: Оружие: Вооружение: Россия назвала условия поставки комплексов С-300 Ирану". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ↑ Administrator. "Минобороны РФ подписало трехлетний контракт на поставку ЗРС С-300В4 - Военный Обозреватель". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ↑ http://itar-tass.com/armiya-i-opk/1660936
- ↑ http://www.armstrade.org/includes/periodics/news/2014/1223/102027179/detail.shtml
- ↑ http://www.siberianinsider.com/russian-military-receives-second-batch-of-new-s-300v4-air-defense-systems.html
- ↑ http://www.armstrade.org/includes/periodics/news/2015/0702/102029983/detail.shtml
- ↑ http://www.arms-expo.ru/news/archive/modernizaciya-do-urovnya-zrs-s-300v4-pvo-suhoputnyh-voysk-polnost-yu-zavershitsya-v-2012-godu-28-03-2012-14-58-00/
- ↑ Денис Тельманов. "Венесуэла получила российский комплекс ПВО С-300ВМ". Известия. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ↑ http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2831626
- ↑ http://in.rbth.com/news/2015/05/06/turkey_shows_interest_in_russian_air_defense_systems_russias_arms_export_42987.html
- ↑ http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/nato-beware-turkey-may-buy-russias-s-300-air-defense-system-12822
- ↑ "::". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ↑ US: Russia ships new anti-missile system into Syria
- ↑ Russia Deploys Advanced S-300V4 Anti-Ballistic Missile System in Syria, Amid Rising Tensions between Washington and Moscow
- ↑ Истерика США от размещения С-300ВМ в Сирии имеет исчерпывающее объяснение
- Russia's Arms Catalog 2004
External links
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- (Russian) S-300VM "Antey-2500" (SA-12 Giant/Gladiator) at the Vestnik PVO website
- S-300VM Antey-2500 SA-23 Gladiator Giant air defense missile system (Army recognition)