{"id":199348,"date":"2007-08-09T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/09\/russia-to-export-worlds-most-capable-surface-to-air-missile\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T10:30:00","slug":"russia-to-export-worlds-most-capable-surface-to-air-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/09\/russia-to-export-worlds-most-capable-surface-to-air-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to export Worlds Most Capable Surface to Air Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"

The S-400 is entering service with the Russian military, and they expect to begin exports in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s clear that they are looking at this to be a big seller. It should have some decent capabilities against stealthy aircraft, and it has good anti-cruise missile and anti-tactical ballistic missile capabilities.<\/p>\n

Considering the range of the system (over 400km), it would be expected that it would be capable of engaging low radar cross section targets at a much shorter range.<\/p>\n

Given that a conventional bomber would have a radar cross section in the 10m2<\/sup> range, and detection range a function of 4th route of the RCS<\/a> (i.e. a reduction of 32x in RCS will cut range by 1\/2), you get potential detection ranges as follows, assuming 400km for the bomber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Range<\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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RCS<\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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     Type<\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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400 km<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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10m2<\/sup><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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B-1, F-15<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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336 km<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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5m2<\/sup><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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F-16<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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225 km<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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1m2<\/sup><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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F-18E, Rafale<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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189 km<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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0.5 m2<\/sup><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Typhoon<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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48 km<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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0.00200m2<\/sup><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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F-117 (WAG)<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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40 km<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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0.00100 m2<\/sup><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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F-35<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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23 km<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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0.00010 m2<\/sup><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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F-22, B2<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

So you are looking at something like a 15 mile detection range against the stealthiest targets.<\/p>\n

Update<\/i>: This range is for high frequency radars. The S-400 also has a VHF radar, which would diminish the effectiveness of stealth, to some (I don’t know what) degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The S-400 is entering service with the Russian military, and they expect to begin exports in 2009. It’s clear that they are looking at this to be a big seller. It should have some decent capabilities against stealthy aircraft, and it has good anti-cruise missile and anti-tactical ballistic missile capabilities. Considering the range of the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-missile-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199348"}],"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=199348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}