S-500 and S-550 Export deals?

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I think the S-500 can be exportable to buy, no idea on the S-550.

India may be first foreign buyer of Russia’s advanced S-500 air defense system - Military & Defense - TASS

India may be first foreign buyer of Russia’s advanced S-500 air defense system
The system is designed to strike all existing and future aerospace attack weapons of a potential enemy at all altitudes and speeds

MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. India may be the first foreign buyer of Russia’s most advanced S-500 ‘Prometei’ anti-aircraft missile system, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov told the RBC TV Channel on Monday.
"Beyond a doubt, once we deliver this system to our troops, India will be the first on the list, if it expresses its desire to buy these advanced armaments," the deputy PM said, replying to a question about whether India would be the first country to purchase the Russian-made S-500.
The Russian vice-premier also said that he disagreed with the conclusions by experts of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) that the largest Russian weapon producers had seen the sales of their armaments dwindle on the global arms market.
"In this context, I do not agree with their conclusions because they fail to take into account many things that I know about. Secondly, our statistical data suggest that we have a stable book of long-term contracts topping $50 billion while $13-15 billion has been our annual export figure lately. Our leading importers have long-term contracts with us," the Russian deputy PM stressed.

Russia is ready to offer principally new armaments to the global arms market, Borisov said. "I mean innovations and air defense systems where we are among the world leaders. This also refers to the future Prometei. We offer actually the entire range of air defense systems on the market as compared to other countries, from man-portable surface-to-air missile systems to S-400 multirole launchers. They have proven their efficiency in practice on many occasions, including all the latest military conflicts. They enjoy demand on the market and customers buy them with pleasure," the deputy PM said.
SIPRI’s estimates
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published its annual 2020 report on December 6 covering the sales of arms and military services by the industry’s top 100 corporations. The report demonstrates that the sales of the Russian companies included in the top 100 have been on the decline for a third year in a row. In particular, these sales dwindled by 6.5% in 2020 to $26.4 billion from $28.2 billion in 2019 while nine Russian companies accounted for 5% of the sales by the top 100 corporations, according to the report.
S-500 air defense system
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on July 20 that the S-500 air defense system conducted a successful test-launch against a fast-moving ballistic target at the Kapustin Yar proving ground. The test-launch confirmed the S-500’s stated operational characteristics.


The S-500 anti-aircraft missile system is designed to strike all existing and future aerospace attack weapons of a potential enemy at all altitudes and speeds. Russia has been training specialists to operate the S-500 since 2017. The Prometei is set to replace the S-400 ‘Triumf’ surface-to-air missile system.

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First S-550 air defense systems enter service in Russia — source

The source described the new system as "an absolutely new and unrivalled mobile system of strategic missile defense"

MOSCOW, December 29. /TASS/. Russia’s new S-550 air defense system has successfully passed state trials and entered combat service, a source close to the Russian defense ministry has told TASS.

"The S-550 air defense system has successfully completed state trials. The first S-550 brigade has entered combat duty," he said.

The source described the new system as "an absolutely new and unrivalled mobile system of strategic missile defense," capable of "hitting spacecraft, ballistic missile reentry vehicles and hypersonic targets at altitudes of tens of thousands of kilometers."

According to the source, the new system becomes a part of Russia's comprehensive missile and air defense, comprised by Pantsir systems (low-altitude), long-range S-350, S-400 and S-500 systems and S-550 (in space).

Official sources have not yet confirmed this information to TASS.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at the ministry’s conference call on November 9 that at defense industry meetings in Sochi in November Russian President Vladimir Putin had put emphasis on the importance of delivering S-350, S-500 and S-550 air and missile defense systems to the Russian troops.

Head of the Rostec state tech corporation Rostec Sergei Chemezov said at the Dubai Airshow 2021 that the S-550 would feature a longer-range target detection and missile interception capability.

A source close to the Russian Defense Ministry told TASS earlier that the S-550 system was not an attempt to revive an eponymous Soviet-era project, although some unimplemented concepts of it were used while creating the modern version.


Don't want to comment much on this before we get some more information, but this would mean to end the militarization of space, before it even gets started....

https://tass.com/defense/1382133

The completely new system has no analogues and is capable of hitting spacecraft, intercontinental ballistic missile warheads, and hypersonic targets at altitudes of several tens of thousands of kilometers.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/13321835
 

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Washington "will get hypersonic missiles in 5 years, but Russia already has countermeasures". 10.27.2022.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United States could start producing hypersonic missiles within three to five years, and Russia's response will be its advanced S-500 anti-aircraft system, military expert Igor Korotchenko said.

"Despite the previous failures, the United States is continuing work on creating hypersonic missiles. The process will end with the incorporation of these weapons into the American arsenal. In Russia, they should take into account that the American army will have such missiles within three to five years," Korotchenko told Sputnik.

The media claimed that the US Navy had successfully tested some components of the hypersonic missiles.
Korotchenko stressed that by that time Russia should increase the number of its advanced S-500 anti-aircraft systems capable of intercepting hypersonic missiles.

In July 2021, several media outlets reported that the Russian Ministry of Defense had sealed a contract with the Almaz-Antey company to acquire more than ten S-500 systems. In August of this year, another agreement was signed with Almaz-Antey for the delivery of more units.

According to official sources, with a range of 600 kilometers, the S-500 can simultaneously shoot down up to ten ballistic targets moving at supersonic speeds (up to 7 kilometers per second) and destroy hypersonic missile warheads.

Russia is leading hypersonic technologies with its advanced Avangard missile already incorporated into its arsenal since the end of 2019. With a speed 20 times higher than that of sound, the projectile can outwit existing and developing defences.

The Russian army also has the Kinzhal hypersonic missile, which with a range of 2,000 kilometers, develops a speed ten times higher than that of sound and can bypass all existing anti-missile shields. To this is added the naval version called Tsirkon.

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