Russia Develops Own THAAD-like, GMD-like Missile Defense Systems

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Radio Liberty: Russia says air units deploying south to Ashuluk for drills - read on - uatoday.tv
Ashuluk situated about 500 kilometers from Russia's border with eastern Ukraine




Russia's Defense Ministry says the first phase of joint air-defense exercises by the Commonwealth of Independent States began on August 18.

The ministry says troops from 20 air-defense and missile-defense units in the Moscow region have been put on high alert for the CIS Combat Commonwealth 2015 exercises, which are schedule to continue until September 11.

The ministry says the exercises involve more than 1,000 servicemen as well as surface-to-air defense missile systems, fighter jets, assault attack helicopters, aircraft used for close air support in ground attacks, and military transport planes.

 

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Russia plans to deploy new weapons to counter US missile shield | Zee News

Moscow: Russia will counter NATO's US-led missile defence programme by deploying new strike weapons capable of piercing the shield, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

Putin told defence officials that by developing defences against ballistic missiles Washington aims to "neutralize" Russia's strategic nuclear deterrent and gain a "decisive military superiority."

He said that Moscow will respond by developing "strike systems capable of penetrating any missile defences."

Putin's statement comes amid a severe strain in Russia's relations with the US and its NATO allies, which have plunged to the lowest point since the Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine.

For many years, the Kremlin has protested the US-led missile shield, voicing con cern that it could eventually become capable of intercepting Russia's nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, thus eroding the strength of the nation's nuclear deterrent. Washington, in turn, has argued that the shield was aimed to fend off missile threats from nations such as Iran and North Korea.

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[mike jones]

yeah and chinese is due to straight on copy and reverse engineering

They are too ignorant and slow to figure it out on their own.

 

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http://tass.com/defense/906039
October 12, 15:45 UTC+3
The Russian Strategic Missile Forces have successfully test-fired a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk spaceport in north Russia

MOSCOW, October 12. /TASS/. The Russian Strategic Missile Forces have successfully test-fired a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk spaceport in north Russia at a practice range in Kamchatka in the Far East, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

"This launch aimed to confirm the extended service life of operating intercontinental ballistic missiles of this type," the Defense Ministry said in a statement obtained by TASS.

"The missile’s warhead hit the notional target with the required accuracy at the practice range on Kamchatka Peninsula," the statement said.

The launch proved the missile system’s readiness to accomplish combat assignments during the period of its extended service life, the Defense Ministry said. The basic part of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces’ mobile grouping is armed with Topol ICBMs, the Defense Ministry said.

 

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http://tass.com/defense/907617
October 20, 12:15 UTC+3
The drills involved about 100 servicemen and more than 20 pieces of combat hardware of a missile formation of the Western Military District

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http://tass.com/defense/907617

MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. Crews of Russia’s Iskander-M tactical missile systems have held drills at the Luzhsky practice range in the Western Military District as part of a final check in the 2016 training year, the district’s press office said on Thursday.

"During the check, the district’s command assessed the commanders’ ability to make independent decisions in various conditions and also the practical skills of Iskander-M crews to prepare the missile systems for firing and accomplish single and multiple electronic missile launches against targets imitating a notional enemy’s command posts and radar stations located at a distance of several hundred kilometers," the district’s press office said in a statement.

Missile crews have performed multi-kilometer marches to the areas of training, practiced tasks to deploy Iskander missile systems and change launch positions, load missiles from transporter and transporter-loader vehicles, the press office said.

The drills involved about 100 servicemen and more than 20 pieces of combat hardware of a missile formation of the Western Military District.

Iskander tactical ballistic missile systems are capable of hitting both small-size and large-area targets at a distance of up to 500 km to destroy missile and multiple launch rocket systems, long-range artillery guns, aircraft and helicopters at aerodromes, command posts and communications centers.

The Iskander tactical ballistic missile complex includes a launcher, a loader-transporter, a routine maintenance vehicle, a command post vehicle, an information post, an ammunition equipment set and training aids.

 

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13:08 24.10.2016(updated 13:11 24.10.2016)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201610241046655887-sarmat-image-declassified/

First Image of RS-28 Sarmat, Russia's Largest-Ever ICBM, Unveiled

The Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau has declassified the first image of Russia's prospective new super-heavy thermonuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile, the RS-28 Sarmat.

The Sarmat, undergoing development at the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau in the city of Miass, just east of the Ural Mountains, is Russia's answer to the threat of missile defense systems designed to undermine the global strategic balance. On Sunday, Makeyev released an illustration of how the new secretive weapon, expected to go into production as soon as 2018, actually looks.

Screenshot of the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau website, showing an illustration of what appears to be the RS-28 Sarmat

The image is accompanied by a short text: "In accordance with the Decree of the Russian Government 'On the State Defense Order for 2010 and the planning period 2012-2013', the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau was instructed to start design and development work on the Sarmat. In June 2011, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a state contract for the Sarmat's development. The prospective strategic missile system is being developed in order to create an assured and effective nuclear deterrent for Russia's strategic forces."

The text is signed by chief designers V. Degtar and Y. Kaverin.

The Sarmat is set to replace the RS-36, a family of ICBMs and space launch vehicles that entered service in the 1970s and 1980s. Featuring a large payload capacity, the multi warhead missile is expected to carry up to 10 heavy warheads, or 16 lighter ones, or a combination of warheads and countermeasures to overwhelm enemy missile defenses.

In anticipation of the new missile's appearance, what many foreign defense specialists have found most disconcerting is the prospect of the RS-28 being armed with Project 4202, a Russian hypersonic glider warhead carrier which, after separating from its ICBM launch vehicle, would be able to accelerate to speeds between Mach 7 and Mach 12, acting like a hypersonic cruise missile. The glider, expected to come online between 2020 and 2025, would be capable of maneuvering to overcome any existing or prospective missile defenses to reach its target.

The Sarmat is expected to serve as an effective response to US missile defense deployments near Russia's borders, as well as projects such as Prompt Global Strike, a Pentagon initiative meant to overcome a prospective enemy's strategic deterrent using the massed launch of conventional cruise missiles.






http://tass.com/defense/908267

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said previously that the mass of the Sarmat ICBM warhead is 10 tonnes, and the missile is capable of destroying targets flying across both the North and South Pole. The Sarmat ICBM that is to replace the Voyevoda, will be created in several versions, Borisov said.


According to the developers, the advanced Sarmat will weigh within 100 tonnes. According to Yuri Borisov, its range will exceed 11,000 km.

The cutting-edge missile is designed as a successor to the world’s largest and most formidable ballistic missile, the R-36M Voyevoda, weighing 210 tonnes and carrying 10 individually targeted warheads 750 kilotons each.

 

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The ballistic warhead has successfully reached its destination.
https://sputniknews.com/military/201610251046700696-russia-rs-18-launch/

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russia's Strategic Missile Forces have performed a successful launch of the RS-18 (SS-19 Stiletto) two-stage ballistic missile from southwestern Russia into the Far East, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. "The launch was carried out successfully, the ballistic warhead has been delivered to the area of the Kura range (Kamchatka Peninsula)," the ministry said in a statement. The 11:58 a.m. (08:59 GMT) launch from the Yasny missile formation in Orenburg Region aimed to confirm the stability of flight performance characteristics for missiles of similar class at extended-use periods, it added.

 

[wiseone2]

Even india is ahead of russia in this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ballistic_Missile_Defence_Programme;)

Russia is pretty advanced in ABM research

 

[Hindustani78]

Russia is pretty advanced in ABM research

According to United States Military , Russian federation is having large numbers of Missile launchers and interceptors.

 

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Interfax news
November 17, 2016

16:13
St. Petersburg submarine hits Arctic target with cruise missile

12:51 17.11.2016(updated 12:53 17.11.2016)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201611171047532788-sankt-peterburg-submarine-cruise-missiles/

The diesel-electric submarine attacked a target in the Barents Sea with cruise missiles.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Project 677 Lada-class Sankt Peterburg diesel-electric submarine has fired cruise missiles on a sea target in the Barents Sea, the Northern Fleet's press service reported Thursday.

"Today the Sankt Peterburg diesel-electric submarine successfully fired a cruise missile from a submerged position on a sea target in line with the combat training plan," the statement said.

 

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http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?pg=3&id=715751
November 18, 2016 11:02
Missile forces to be fully equipped with Iskander systems by 2020 - Russian Defense Ministry (Part 2)

MOSCOW. Nov 18 (Interfax-AVN) - All Russian army missile formations will be rearmed with Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile systems by 2020, Russian Armed Forces' Missile Forces and Artillery Commander Lt. Gen. Mikhail Matveyevsky said.

"We will complete the rearming of all formations with Iskander-M missile systems by 2020," he told the press on Friday.

The Iskander-M "is the best missile system in its class as of today, and it is capable of penetrating any kind of missile defense," he said.

"Enterprises of the Russian defense sector are modernizing this system in order to improve its combat and performance capacities," the general said.

He mentioned the creation of prospective warheads, including "multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV) and those whose impact is based on new physical principles."

"The use of all-weather homing warheads and self-directing and targeting vehicles by military units'" is being ensured, Matveyevsky said.

Missile systems are being equipped with "brand new control and automatic launch systems and units controlling their serviceability," he said.

The modernization potential of the Iskander-M, which was commissioned in 2006, "will keep it up-to-date and not inferior to foreign products until 2030," the general said.

The Iskander-M, designed by KB Mashinostroyeniya of the High Precision Systems Holding, can hit targets at a range of up to 500 kilometers. The system is armed with ballistic and cruise missiles to destroy multiple rocket launchers, anti-aircraft and air defense systems, planes and helicopters on airfields, command posts and infrastructures of the enemy.

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The Russian Land Force's missile and artillery troops will be fully reequiped with Iskander-M mobile missile systems by 2020, Maj. Gen. Mikhail Matveevsky, said Friday.

Matveevsky said all of Russia's Central, Southern and Eastern Military District formations have been revamped to accommodate the Iskander-Ms.

"By 2020, we will completely finish upgrading all existing formations to the Iskander-M missile complex," he stressed, referring to the Western Military District.

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"Before 2020, we’ll complete rearming all existing military formations with the Iskander-M system," he said.

The general specified that Iskander-M tactical missile systems would replace Tochka-U ballistic missile complexes.

A brigade set of the Iskander-M missile system has already been fully delivered to Russia’s Central Military District. The brigade set comprises over 50 pieces of combat hardware, including launchers, loader-transporters, command and staff vehicles, maintenance and repair and life support vehicles, the general said.

Missile units in the Southern and Eastern Military Districts have been fully rearmed with the advanced Iskander-M systems, the general said.

"As for the prospects of developing the missile system, the following can be said: the Iskander-M is today the best missile complex of its class, which is capable of breaching any missile defense shield. But, as the saying goes, there is no room for complacency. Russian defense enterprises are currently carrying out work to modernize the missile system to enhance its combat and operational capabilities," Matveyevsky said.

 

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https://sputniknews.com/military/201611191047623624-russian-baltic-northern-fleets/
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Northern and Baltic fleets have held around 350 firing exercises in 2016 using artillery as well as ballistic and cruise missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

“Missile units of the Northern Fleet have performed 38 launches of cruise sea- and ground-based missiles as well as three launches of sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles.

In total, the servicemen have performed about 150 missile firing exercises and that exceeds results of the previous year by 1.6 times,” the Northern Fleet’s press service said.

According to the Baltic Fleet’s spokesman Roman Martov, the fleet carried out over 200 firing exercises in 2016.

During the exercises the fleets used different types of weapons. “Cruise missile launches were carried out by crews of nuclear missile submarines, diesel submarines, surface ships, and coastal missile squadrons. Within the training year, missile units of the Northern Fleet carried out launches of Sineva and Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles as well as Granit, Moskit, Malakhit, Progress, Termit, Kalibr and Onyx cruise missiles,” the Northern Fleet’s press service said. The Baltic Fleet is said to have used cannon artillery, mortars, multiple launch rocket systems and antitank guided missiles.

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http://tass.com/defense/913447
VLADIVOSTOK, November 19. /TASS/. Crews of Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile systems took part in drills in Russia’s Far Eastern Military district, a military spokesman told TASS Saturday.

"A missile formation was put on alert as part of the training," a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry's Eastern Military District, Vladimir Matveyev, said.

Among other things, the drills involved the deployment and maneuvering of Iskander-M systems in different conditions, as well as aiming, preparations for firing and simulation launches, but no actual firing.

Iskander tactical ballistic missile systems are capable of hitting both small-size and large-area targets at a distance of up to 500 km to destroy missile and multiple launch rocket systems, long-range artillery guns, aircraft and helicopters at aerodromes, command posts and communications centers.

 

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December 02, 16:46 UTC+3
Military radars on December 1 identified two falling objects - most likely Progress debris

http://tass.com/science/916460
YEKATERINBURG, December 2. /TASS/. An air defense unit of the Central Military District stationed in Siberia may help identify the likely area where fragments of the Progress MS-04 cargo spacecraft may have fallen to Earth on Thursday evening, Central Military District spokesman Yaroslav Roshchupkin has told TASS.

"The flight path and direction of registered objects allow for identifying the area to be combed by search groups," Roshchupkin said.

He added that military radars on December 1 identified two falling objects - most likely Progress debris - at 17:56 and 17:57 Moscow time.

According to data of the Central Military District, servicemen are not taking part in the search measures.

The cargo spacecraft Progress launched on Thursday from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket to deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) was lost at an altitude of 190 km above Tyva. Most of its fragments burned up in the dense layers of the Earth’s atmosphere, the press office of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos said.

The spacecraft’s remaining fragments could have fallen 60-80 km west of Kyzyl in a scarcely populated area in the Republic of Tyva in south Siberia, a source in the rocket and space industry said.

According to the source, specialists have notified all ministries and departments concerned, including Russia’s Emergencies Ministry, about the spacecraft’s accident and the likely crash site.

The Progress MS-04 spacecraft was expected to deliver about 2.5 tons of various cargoes to the world’s sole orbiter: fuel for the ISS, water and the air for cosmonauts. The spacecraft’s cargo compartment accommodated scientific equipment and spare parts, containers with foodstuffs, clothes, medicines and personal hygiene items.

The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s teams have combed four populated areas in several districts of Tyva but have found no spacecraft debris.

According to some reports several fragments may have reached the Earth’s surface in a sparsely populated area 60-80 kilometers west of the city of Kyzyl. Search groups of the Emergencies Ministry have inspected territories around four communities in the Ulug-Khem, Chaa-Khol and Sut-Khol districts of Tyva to find nothing.

 

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http://tass.com/defense/918614

The Russian Armed Forces keep getting more advanced multi-role jet fighters Sukhoi-30SM.Just recently a batch of Sukhoi-30SMs was delivered to an assault air regiment of the Russian Navy in the Arctic.

As the daily Izvestia says, the planes that have already become organic to the Northern Fleet’s aviation group will be armed with air-to-air rockets and supersonic anti-ship rockets Kh-31. The daily says the fighter planes’ task will be to protect the Barents Sea from warplanes, attack drones, cruise missiles and combat ships of a hypothetical enemy. Also, Sukhoi-30SMs will have the capability to attack radars, air defense systems and other facilities on the ground. For coping with such tasks the supersonic Kh-31 missiles may be employed.

A dozen upgraded and newly-developed types of cruise missiles were provided for the ground forces and the Navy in 2015. A family of anti-ship and anti-radar missiles Kh-31A (also known as Kh-31M, NATO’s reporting name AS-17 Krypton) proved one of the latest products available from the OJSC Tactical Missiles Corporation (KTRV).

Kh-31PD was designed to hit air defense systems’ radars. Its range has been increased to 250 kilometers and the mass of the warhead, to 110 kilograms.

The anti-ship Kh-31AD, as its designers say, by far outperforms its predecessors in terms of combat effectiveness and is in no way inferior to the latest foreign counterparts. Its task is to destroy surface and amphibious surface ships and transport ships operating as part of task forces or sailing on their own. In contrast to its prototype (Kh-31A) the yield of the warhead is 15% higher and the range (120-160), twice greater.

The Kh-31AD missiles arm the Sukhoi-30/35 and MiG-29K/35 families of fighter planes. According to 2015 reports, the anti-ship missiles Kh-31/35 may be stalled on Ka-52K helicopter gunships possessing a new onboard radar.

The Sukhoi-30SM has impressive flight range and duration parameters, such as a combat range of 1,500 kilometers. It can also be used for training pilots for single-seat fighter jets of the future.

Twelve suspension devices enable the plane to carry medium-range air-to-air missiles of the R-27 family (up to eight), R-77 (ten) and short-range R-73 missiles (up to six).

Armed with anti-radar and anti-ship missiles Kh-31P and Kh-31A (up to six) the Sukhoi-30SM can be used in operations to suppress enemy air defense and destroy surface ships. Also, the Sukhoi-30SM is capable of delivering pin-point strikes with:

• Kh-59 family missiles (up to five);
• Guided air bombs KAB-250 (up to six), KAB-500 (up to six) and KAB 1500 (up to three);
• Kh-29T missiles with a TV-guided warhead (up to six);
• Unguided air bombs (100 kg, 250 kg and 500 kg).
• Sets of unguided missiles S-8 (set B-8M) and S-13 (B-13P), and S-24 and S-25 missiles.

 

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December 15, 2016
12:03
Russia to carry out more than 10 ICBM launches in 2017 - commander

12:02
Russia's RVSN has some 400 ICBMs on duty - commander

16:21
Russian Strategic Missile Forces to have Topol missile systems on duty until 2022 - commander

12:13
Russian Strategic Rocket Forces get 23 Yars silo, mobile missile launchers in 2016 - commander

12:08
Sarmat missile system with liquid-fuel ICBM to be put into service in 2019-2020 - RVSN commander

http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?pg=3&id=722309
MOSCOW. Dec 15 (Interfax-AVN) -The mobile and stationary components of the Strategic Missile Troops are being rearmed with the brand new Yars missile complex, Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev, Commander of the Strategic Missile Troops, said on Thursday ahead of the Troops' professional day marked on December 17.

"In 2017 four missile regiments will be re-armed, the work of refitting them will be carried out in the Troops' Kozelsk, Yoshkar-Ola, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk units," Karakayev said.

"The Yars missile complex has already significantly strengthened the Troops' mobile grouping, and in the future it will no doubt play one of the key roles in fulfilling a number of strategic deterrence tasks," he said.

For all their similarities in outward appearance, the Topol missile complex and its Yars successor are "completely different," he said.

"It [Yars] has increased capabilities for use of launch sites (which has increased both territorially and qualitatively). Yars design features enable it to carry out launches from sites where a Topol could only be deployed after getting special extra engineering equipment. [Yars] has improved characteristics in terms of communications systems and the chassis frame, and the missile itself has become more potent and practically immune to existing hostile counter-missile defense. The Yars warheads have also changed qualitatively," the commander said.

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Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN)

"At present, the RVSN group comprises some 400 intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads of various power classes. [ As many as] 99 percent of missile launchers are in the state of combat readiness."