Advanced C-350 will introduce NATO to a bitter reality. What is a wrapper for Turkey is a masterpiece for Russia
While the majority of domestic military-analytical portals and highly specialized military-technical "platforms" continue to exaggerate information about the launch of the Turkish-Russian contract for the supply of four anti-aircraft missile systems C-400 "Triumph" to Ankara, occasionally disturbing the emotional balance of the observers with probable disclosure “Critical technologies” of 92H6 radar highlighting by NATO experts and expert commissions of leading US defense corporations (“Lockheed Martin”, “Raytheon”, etc.), where more important and partly epochal news Received from the publication "Red Star" with reference to the Deputy Chief of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Aerospace Force Yuri Muravkin. We are talking about the imminent launching of promising anti-aircraft missile systems of medium and long range C-350 “Vityaz” on the experimental combat duty.
At the same time, as Mr. Muravkin, a senior representative of the Airborne Forces Airborne Command, specified in an interview with Red Star reporters, the first Vityazey anti-aircraft missile divisions will replenish border and coastal anti-aircraft missile regiments (ZRP) first of all. It is quite obvious that the air defense missile systems are intended to form anti-air and anti-missile zones of restriction and prohibition of access and the A2 / AD maneuver for tactical aviation and high precision weapons NATO Air Forces at the distant approaches to the Republic of Crimea, the Republic of Karelia, and the Kaliningrad, Pskov, Leningrad, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk regions.
Today, the most strategically important regiments responsible for covering the rocket-dangerous Baltic, Scandinavian and Arctic air routes can be considered: 500 Guards GRP (deployed in the village. Gostilitsy, Leningrad Region); 1488-th Red Banner ZRP (Zelenogorsk, Leningrad region); 1490 Guards RFP (Ulyanovka village, Leningrad region); 583-th Red Banner Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment (Olenegorsk, Murmansk Region) and 1528-RFP Red Order of the Red Star (Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Region) and 33-RFP (Avg “Rogachevo”, New Earth Archipelago).
The main problem of border air defense zones A2 / AD is the unseen “gaps” in the low-altitude airspace. The problem will be partially solved by entering the air defense forces of the S-300B4 air defense missiles equipped with updated 9М82MB missile defense systems with active RGSN, but small ammunition and far from the best maneuverability of these anti-missile missiles do not compensate for the 996E / ЕNNXX missile capabilities.
All of the above shelves are very impressive "mixed" air defense missile group composed of at least 50 SAM "Buk-M1 / 2" C-300PS, C-300PM1, S400 "Triumph" and ZRPK "Carapace-S1" united into a single network-centric network of air defense through automated command posts for managing the anti-aircraft missile brigades Polyana-D4М1 and Baikal-1М. Nevertheless, even this group is not without serious tactical and technical drawback. It consists in the use of all the above types of air defense missile systems, or the semi-active radar guidance method (refers to the Buk-М1 / 2, C-300PS / PM1 and C-400) complexes, or the radio command method (valid for the Pantsir- С1 »).
These methods of guidance completely exclude the possibility of intercepting low-range air attack weapons of the NATO air forces operating outside the radio horizon of 30C38, 9N36 and 30H6 of Buk, S-XNXX, Buk, S-CHNXX, and S-XNXX radars. This happens because the 92М6, 300Н400Е and 9Н317ДМ anti-aircraft missiles equipped with semi-active radar homing heads need continuous target illumination from the radar of target pointing out (that is, in order to maintain the line of sight of the target until it is destroyed).
In the case of flight targets in the following terrain mode (at altitudes from 30 to 50 m), the radio horizon phenomenon comes into play due to the curvature of the earth, which limits the line of sight of all 38 kilometers, even when placing antenna posts for radar guidance on universal 40В6МД towers. As a result, between the anti-aircraft missile regiments dispersed throughout the territories of the western and northern regions of Russia, a multitude of “overlooked” radars targeting “gaps” in low-altitude airspace is formed, through which outbreaks of hundreds of strategic UGM / RGM-109E “Tomahawk Block” cruise missiles can penetrate. IV ”, as well as more dangerous low-profile AGM-158B JASSM-ER tactical missiles, adapted for launching from the F-16C / D and F-15E“ Strike Eagle ”fighter jets.
The only effective panacea in this situation is the re-equipment (or replenishment) of the above anti-aircraft missile regiments announced by Yuri Muravkin with the promising Vityaz C-350 air defense system. These complexes for the first time in stories The Soviet and Russian air defense forces, as well as the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian space forces, received unique ultra-maneuverable 9М96Е anti-aircraft interceptors (range - 40 km) and 9М96Х2 (DM) (range of the target to be hit, of 130-150 km), and they were equipped with the equipment of the XNUMX-XNUMX XNUMX (DM) systems of the target to be struck. and gas-dynamic transverse control engines, which are two staggered "belts" of micro-solid propellant rocket motors.
The presence of active radar seeker will allow the 9М96Е / Е2 SAM to hit targets that are outside the radio horizon (out of range of the divisional guidance radars and 50НХNUMXА); target designation in this case can be issued both by airborne aircraft A-6U and by other means of ground-based / airborne radar or optical-electronic reconnaissance. Thus, possessing the active radar principle of targeting the Vityaz C-50 air defense system fully compensate for the above-described disadvantages of the Buk-М350 / 1, С-2ПМ300 and С-1 "Triumf" family complexes: range of impact of low-altitude surface-to-air missiles. 400 km to 30 — 38 km.
As for the transverse-control gas-dynamic engines, they will provide the 9М96Е / Е2 rockets with the highest flight performance when intercepting maneuvering supersonic and hypersonic air attack tools (including spatial “throws” on trajectories with an overload of about 65 units, as well as an overload in 93 km overheating in VN circuits, etc.). for 20 c). This feature will allow the Vityaz to destroy not only the Tomahawks hiding in the folds of the terrain and the inconspicuous AGM-0,025B missiles, but also the promising Deep Strike tactical ballistic missiles of the direct strike ("hit-to -kill "), which C-158 and C-300, which have 400H48Е and 6Н48DM missiles, unfortunately are not capable of. Is this not the main help for the preservation of the military stability of the border fortified areas of the Russian land forces, naval facilities, as well as the state defense and industrial infrastructure in the event of an escalation of a large-scale conflict in the European theater of operations?
At the same time, as Mr. Muravkin, a senior representative of the Airborne Forces Airborne Command, specified in an interview with Red Star reporters, the first Vityazey anti-aircraft missile divisions will replenish border and coastal anti-aircraft missile regiments (ZRP) first of all. It is quite obvious that the air defense missile systems are intended to form anti-air and anti-missile zones of restriction and prohibition of access and the A2 / AD maneuver for tactical aviation and high precision weapons NATO Air Forces at the distant approaches to the Republic of Crimea, the Republic of Karelia, and the Kaliningrad, Pskov, Leningrad, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk regions.
Today, the most strategically important regiments responsible for covering the rocket-dangerous Baltic, Scandinavian and Arctic air routes can be considered: 500 Guards GRP (deployed in the village. Gostilitsy, Leningrad Region); 1488-th Red Banner ZRP (Zelenogorsk, Leningrad region); 1490 Guards RFP (Ulyanovka village, Leningrad region); 583-th Red Banner Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment (Olenegorsk, Murmansk Region) and 1528-RFP Red Order of the Red Star (Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Region) and 33-RFP (Avg “Rogachevo”, New Earth Archipelago).
The main problem of border air defense zones A2 / AD
The main problem of border air defense zones A2 / AD is the unseen “gaps” in the low-altitude airspace. The problem will be partially solved by entering the air defense forces of the S-300B4 air defense missiles equipped with updated 9М82MB missile defense systems with active RGSN, but small ammunition and far from the best maneuverability of these anti-missile missiles do not compensate for the 996E / ЕNNXX missile capabilities.
All of the above shelves are very impressive "mixed" air defense missile group composed of at least 50 SAM "Buk-M1 / 2" C-300PS, C-300PM1, S400 "Triumph" and ZRPK "Carapace-S1" united into a single network-centric network of air defense through automated command posts for managing the anti-aircraft missile brigades Polyana-D4М1 and Baikal-1М. Nevertheless, even this group is not without serious tactical and technical drawback. It consists in the use of all the above types of air defense missile systems, or the semi-active radar guidance method (refers to the Buk-М1 / 2, C-300PS / PM1 and C-400) complexes, or the radio command method (valid for the Pantsir- С1 »).
These methods of guidance completely exclude the possibility of intercepting low-range air attack weapons of the NATO air forces operating outside the radio horizon of 30C38, 9N36 and 30H6 of Buk, S-XNXX, Buk, S-CHNXX, and S-XNXX radars. This happens because the 92М6, 300Н400Е and 9Н317ДМ anti-aircraft missiles equipped with semi-active radar homing heads need continuous target illumination from the radar of target pointing out (that is, in order to maintain the line of sight of the target until it is destroyed).
In the case of flight targets in the following terrain mode (at altitudes from 30 to 50 m), the radio horizon phenomenon comes into play due to the curvature of the earth, which limits the line of sight of all 38 kilometers, even when placing antenna posts for radar guidance on universal 40В6МД towers. As a result, between the anti-aircraft missile regiments dispersed throughout the territories of the western and northern regions of Russia, a multitude of “overlooked” radars targeting “gaps” in low-altitude airspace is formed, through which outbreaks of hundreds of strategic UGM / RGM-109E “Tomahawk Block” cruise missiles can penetrate. IV ”, as well as more dangerous low-profile AGM-158B JASSM-ER tactical missiles, adapted for launching from the F-16C / D and F-15E“ Strike Eagle ”fighter jets.
Vityazi will breathe new life into strategically important border and coastal anti-aircraft missile regiments
The only effective panacea in this situation is the re-equipment (or replenishment) of the above anti-aircraft missile regiments announced by Yuri Muravkin with the promising Vityaz C-350 air defense system. These complexes for the first time in stories The Soviet and Russian air defense forces, as well as the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian space forces, received unique ultra-maneuverable 9М96Е anti-aircraft interceptors (range - 40 km) and 9М96Х2 (DM) (range of the target to be hit, of 130-150 km), and they were equipped with the equipment of the XNUMX-XNUMX XNUMX (DM) systems of the target to be struck. and gas-dynamic transverse control engines, which are two staggered "belts" of micro-solid propellant rocket motors.
The presence of active radar seeker will allow the 9М96Е / Е2 SAM to hit targets that are outside the radio horizon (out of range of the divisional guidance radars and 50НХNUMXА); target designation in this case can be issued both by airborne aircraft A-6U and by other means of ground-based / airborne radar or optical-electronic reconnaissance. Thus, possessing the active radar principle of targeting the Vityaz C-50 air defense system fully compensate for the above-described disadvantages of the Buk-М350 / 1, С-2ПМ300 and С-1 "Triumf" family complexes: range of impact of low-altitude surface-to-air missiles. 400 km to 30 — 38 km.
As for the transverse-control gas-dynamic engines, they will provide the 9М96Е / Е2 rockets with the highest flight performance when intercepting maneuvering supersonic and hypersonic air attack tools (including spatial “throws” on trajectories with an overload of about 65 units, as well as an overload in 93 km overheating in VN circuits, etc.). for 20 c). This feature will allow the Vityaz to destroy not only the Tomahawks hiding in the folds of the terrain and the inconspicuous AGM-0,025B missiles, but also the promising Deep Strike tactical ballistic missiles of the direct strike ("hit-to -kill "), which C-158 and C-300, which have 400H48Е and 6Н48DM missiles, unfortunately are not capable of. Is this not the main help for the preservation of the military stability of the border fortified areas of the Russian land forces, naval facilities, as well as the state defense and industrial infrastructure in the event of an escalation of a large-scale conflict in the European theater of operations?
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