The main goal of the Mobile S-550 system, which is currently being developed in Russia, will be American Cosmic Unmanned Conductors X-37, capable of carrying nuclear charges. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to two sources in the defense and industrial complex.
According to the agency’s interlocutor, the C-550 will specialize in the destruction of ballistic and orbital space objects, including nuclear combat units of intercontinental missiles. He stressed that among the typical goals of the Russian system, the planning hypersonic blocks and drones, such as X-37, can be called, such as X-37.
It is noted that in fact the new system will be modified by C-500 with a specialization in the interception of ballistic and orbital purposes.
Previously, the TASS Military Observer Dmitry Litovkin said that the Russian S-550 missile defense system was likely to work on the principle of kinetic interception of the goals, which would save from the formation of a “nuclear shelter” over the heads of Russian residents when intercepting the enemy missiles, for example, the United States. The author notes that “in the case of the system about in the USSR, the interception of nuclear warheads over the central industrial area of the country was carried out by the oncoming nuclear explosion.” “In the plasma cloud, everything was burning – false goals and debris and warheads themselves. Thus, the” nuclear ash “still fell on the country. C-550, if you argue logically, it will work on another principle – a kinetic interception,” the observer is confident.