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    TRIUMPH ADVANCES TO FIRING LINE

    The missile was launched without a hitch in the closed control loop at 12.25 Moscow time and engaged its target precisely at the desired point. The main objective of these tests was the functional check of new electronic equipment and software at the ground facilities, as well as the evaluation of missile guidance efficiency.

    The Triumph's leading developer is the Almaz Central Design Bureau. According to Alexander Lemansky, General Designer of the Bureau, the comprehensive manufacturer's tests of the new-generation air defense missile system have demonstrated that it possesses considerably higher performance qualities in terms of the engagement envelope, effectiveness, and a variety of potential targets than was available with the previous generation systems. This phase of the preliminary design tests is scheduled to be completed by late 1999, A. Lemansky stressed.

    The S-400 system is intended to engage current and future air threats such as tactical and strategic aircraft, Tomahawk cruise missiles and other type missiles, including precision-guided ones, as well as AWACS aircraft, at ranges of up to 400 km. It can also detect stealth aircraft and other targets at all altitudes of their combat employment and at maximum ranges.

    Air Force Colonel General Anatoly Kornukov, Air Force Commander-in-Chief, characterizes the Triumph air defense system as a fourth-generation system with a brilliant future because its components are based on the most advanced know-how in the field of radiolocation, missile manufacturing, microcircuitry and computing technology.

    Work on the development of the S-400 air defense missile system is a visible embodiment of cooperation among weapon developers. Besides the Almaz Central Design Bureau, these include leading enterprises of the Russian defense industry, such as the Fakel Machine-Building Design Bureau, the Novosibirsk Research Institute of Measuring Instruments, the St. Petersburg Special Machine-Building Design Bureau, and a number of others.

    General Designer Vladimir Svetlov, head of the Fakel Bureau-the leading developer of missiles for the S-400 systems-underlines that the Triumph is the first system in the country and, perhaps, in the world that can selectively use several types of missiles, both previously developed SAMs and the new, unique SAMs.

    "The long-range missile," Vladimir Svetlov says, "has no analogs. The other missile, the 9M96, does have foreign counterparts, such as an advanced American missile for the PAC-3 Patriot system, but outperforms it, as well as the French Aster, in terms of overall effectiveness by approximately twofold."

    The two versions of the 9M96 medium-range missile (9M96E and 9M96E2) were discussed in detail in the March/Apr '99 issue of Military Parade. As for long-range missiles capable of engaging various targets at ranges of up to 400 km, It is premature to describe them, let us only note here that they are available and ready for trials.

    The Triumph air defense system can also use 48N6E missiles of the S-300PMU-1 system and 48N6E2 missiles of the S-300PMU-2 Favorit system. Incidentally, the 48N6E missile was successfully test-fired on February 12, 1999.

    A high degree of automation at all phases of battle performance, as well as modern types of circuitry, has made it possible to considerably reduce the attending personnel of the S-400 air defense system. The principles of construction and the ramified communications network of the S-400 system allow its integration into different level chains of control throughout the Air Force and other armed services. The arrival of the Russian Federation Defense Minister, Igor Sergeyev, at the test site is indicative of the importance of the next phase of Triumph trials. He told journalists that it was too early to sum up the results before the commencement of the state tests. However, it is expedient, in his opinion, to make investments into the development of the S-400 air defense system because in terms of the effectiveness-cost ratio it is 2.5 times more proficient than the now-functioning systems.

    Sergei Babichev, Leonid Yakutin

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    This phase of the preliminary design tests is scheduled to be completed by late 1999, A. Lemansky stressed
    How old is this article?

    It can also detect stealth aircraft and other targets at all altitudes of their combat employment and at maximum ranges.
    How do they know it can detect stealth? The Russians used their own stealth bombers? Or the US participated in this test?
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    • #3
      How old is this article?
      lol. Looks like 1999. :) There just was a message that S-400 is going to be comissioned this year, and series of articles appeared.

      I reposted this one and missied the date :)


      How do they know it can detect stealth? The Russians used their own stealth bombers? Or the US participated in this test?
      Russia have no revealed stealth program. Only some naval anti-ship missiles are known to have "classic" stealth airframe.

      But the technology itself is not a secret. For exmaple there was a possibility to study F-117 shot down in Serbia.

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      • #4
        Yeah, but a shot-down F-117 on the ground will have much different charactaristics than a F-117 in flight.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by bigross86
          Yeah, but a shot-down F-117 on the ground will have much different charactaristics than a F-117 in flight.
          Sure it is, but the main interest is an actual construction of the ariframe, and the absorbing material.

          Having this you can compute the rest.

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          • #6
            It took the US years to perfect it. Even with a semi working model it will still take ages for someone else to get it to work. How long has it been since the F-117 went down? And yet no one else has a Stealth plane out there.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by bigross86
              It took the US years to perfect it. Even with a semi working model it will still take ages for someone else to get it to work. How long has it been since the F-117 went down? And yet no one else has a Stealth plane out there.
              1999 in Kosovo

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              • #8
                Almost 5 years, and no one has developed anything from it. Well, lurker?
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by bigross86
                  Almost 5 years, and no one has developed anything from it. Well, lurker?
                  Just nobody unclassified anything.

                  Remember for how many years F-117 remained secret?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by lurker
                    Originally posted by bigross86
                    Almost 5 years, and no one has developed anything from it. Well, lurker?
                    Just nobody unclassified anything.

                    Remember for how many years F-117 remained secret?
                    When was it unclassified?

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by ChrisF202
                      When was it unclassified?
                      I mean existence revealed in 1988, 6 years after 1st production aircraft.

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                      • #12
                        Yeah, but it would make sense for any country to unveil it as early as possible, what with the way N. Korea is acting and the war on terror. Use it as a deterrent against anybody.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by bigross86
                          Yeah, but it would make sense for any country to unveil it as early as possible, what with the way N. Korea is acting and the war on terror. Use it as a deterrent against anybody.
                          I hope they dont have any sealth planes

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                          • #14
                            I highly doubt they do. If they did they would have unveiled it before the shooting starts, as a deterrent, rather than use it after the US started bombing strategic targets inside N. Korea.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by bigross86
                              Yeah, but it would make sense for any country to unveil it as early as possible, what with the way N. Korea is acting and the war on terror. Use it as a deterrent against anybody.
                              Keeping it secret makes much more sense.

                              Nobody knows that you have it, so your enemy is hapilly jumping around and not spending any extra money on countermeasures. In the meantime you practically holding a gun to his head.

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