{"id":189628,"date":"2010-02-28T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/28\/russian-s-400-triumf-sam-enters-service\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:30:00","slug":"russian-s-400-triumf-sam-enters-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/28\/russian-s-400-triumf-sam-enters-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian S-400 Triumf SAM Enters Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img193.imageshack.us\/img193\/2776\/s400fireunit9069546.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img193.imageshack.us\/img193\/2776\/s400fireunit9069546.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s about 3 years behind schedule, which when compared to the Patriot Missile, which was entered design in 1969, but did not enter service until 1984, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/defense-update.com\/features\/2010\/february\/triumf_fielded_19022010.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DefenseUpdate+%28Defense+Update%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">S-400 Triumf (NATO designation SA-21 Growler) has officially entered Russian army service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is arguably the most capable SAM in service, with a 400 km range, and a significant ATBM capability, as well as an active radar seeker, which was not present in the S-300 (SA-20 Gargoyle).<\/p>\n<p>It claims to have a significant anti-stealth capability, and based on <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/russia-to-export-worlds-most-capable.html\">some numbers I ran a few years back<\/a>, it would appear that the system could detect an F-22 at a range of at least 15 miles, perhaps more, if some of the advances in signal processing and computers work as advertised.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/ericpalmer.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/22\/after-a-3-year-delay-s-400-sam-inducted-into-the-russian-army\/\">ELP Defens(c)e Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size It&#8217;s about 3 years behind schedule, which when compared to the Patriot Missile, which was entered design in 1969, but did not enter service until 1984, but the S-400 Triumf (NATO designation SA-21 Growler) has officially entered Russian army service. It is arguably the most capable SAM in service, with a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1180,1033,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missiles","category-russia","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}