New surface-to-air missile for S-300V4 air defense system able to engage targets out to 400 km TASS 1905163

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New surface-to-air missile for S-300V4 air defense system able to engage targets out to 400 km.
The Russian-made S-300V4 (NATO-reporting name: SA-23 Gladiator/Giant) surface-to-air missile (SAM) system has been afforded a sophisticated long-range missile designed to engage threats out to 400 km, Almaz-Antei General Designer Pavel Sozinov told TASS in an interview.
     
The Russian-made S-300V4 (NATO-reporting name: SA-23 Gladiator/Giant) surface-to-air missile (SAM) system has been afforded a sophisticated long-range missile designed to engage threats out to 400 km, Almaz-Antei General Designer Pavel Sozinov told TASS in an interview.Latest generation of S-300V Almaz-Antey 2500 at MAKS 2013, Air Show near Moscow, Russia.
     
"The S-300V4 has been equipped with an advanced long-range missile capable, inter alia, of non-strategic missile defense," he told TASS.

According to him, the S-300V4’s range is 400 km. "That is airborne early warning and control aircraft, including the [E-3 Sentry] AWACS, will no longer be able to get in range of the 400-km-capable system scot-free," Sozinov stressed.

He said that the SAM system has reduced the potential opponent’s fighter and attack aircraft control capability and "has considerably altered the electronic countermeasures situation that may emerge when air attacks are being repulsed."

"The ‘400’ [S-400 Triumph] (SA-21 Growler) and other systems, including fifth-generation ones, embody the same philosophy," Almaz-Antei’s general designer added.

Almaz-Antei has derived an S-300V4 version on a wheeled chassis and may implement the program, if the Russian Defense Ministry displays interest in it.

"If there is a need for the S-300V4, if the version is in demand, we will launch its production. In any case, the version in question has been designed," Sozinov said.

The S-300V4 is a recent addition to the S-300V family of army air defense missile systems. The variant has been supplied to the Russian military under an order awarded in 2012.

A TASS source in the Russian Defense Ministry reported the service entry of the long-range SAM previously. According to him, the weapon is effective at a range of 400 km. According to official reports, the S-300V4’s range is 350 km. This is what Army Air Defense Commander Alexander Leonov has said.