Moscow media says the S-500 is a new generation of anti-aircraft missile systems for destroying ballistic and aerodynamic targets.
Ukraine's forces may have struck Russia's newest S-500 air-defense system using U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, according to a journalist in the country.'It is reported that the newest Russian S-500 air defense system was destroyed by ATACMS cluster missiles. The cost of one of these reaches $600 million,' Andriy Tsaplienko, a Ukrainian journalist, said on his Telegram channel, without elaborating on when or where the system was allegedly destroyed.
This suggests it has two battalions with two air-defense batteries each, giving Russia a total of four of the systems.In recent weeks, Ukrainian forces appear to have ramped up attacks on Russian air defense systems.The Institute for the Study of War , a U.S.-based independent think tank, said in analysis of the conflict in Ukraine on June 13 that Kyiv may be conducting an effort aimed at degrading the systems.
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