S-500: Russia’s Missile System ‘Custom Built’ To Shoot Down Air Force F-22 and F-35 Fighters

S-500: Russia’s Missile System ‘Custom Built’ To Shoot Down Air Force F-22 and F-35 Fighters

Synopsis: Marketed as the successor to S-400 Triumf, the S-500 is portrayed as a leap system built to detect low-observable aircraft with multi-frequency radar and advanced signal processing, while also tackling hypersonic and even low-orbit targets. -Yet the narrative collides with its own constraints: timelines have slipped, the export footprint remains narrow, and reported early […] The post S-500: Russia’s Missile System ‘Custom Built’ To Sh…