Five advantages over S-400 Patriot

Anti-aircraft missile system "Patriot" is the basis of tactical air defense of the U.S. Army and its allies. Russian S- 400 guarding the sky near Moscow , the Far East , the Baltic Sea and southern Russia . We compared the system and the result was not in favor of the Americans .Both complexes are designed to solve two main problems . First, to protect against air attack important facilities : air defense radars , missile batteries , headquarters, industrial areas . Secondly, to intercept and destroy ballistic missile warheads . And "Patriot", and C -400 are designed to operate in conditions of active electronic countermeasures - their radars capable of rapidly changing the operating frequency otstraivaya interference .American and Russian SAM radars are equipped with active phased lattice ( PAR) - it allows a fixed antenna to form the necessary number of mobile radio beam . In addition, the complex includes a control point and launchers of anti-aircraft missiles . SAM mobile and able to work both independently and receiving information from the outside with control points air and missile defense , satellite and airborne early warning aircraft . Moreover, any system S- 400 can not only shoot at someone else's team, but also to manage the network itself SAM types: C- 400 , C- 300 , shell - 1C , Tor- M1 - united the tens to hundreds of launchers missiles.



Patriot , but not that"Patriot" operates as follows. Radar detection with a viewing angle of 90 degrees set in the direction of the likely emergence of air objects . Multifunction radar carries out search, detection and identification purposes , calculates their coordinates. As we approach the turn of dangerous targets are defined in terms of their interception interception appear on the display data on the firing order . When approaching the target to the targets set launcher rotates toward the target and launch occurs .After starting the interceptor missile MIM- 104 is taken for the maintenance of radar guidance. In those moments when the radar beam is directed on the rocket , it transferred the management team. On the final trajectory control mode changes. Radar guidance highlights goal homing missiles catches the reflected signal and transmits the data to the ground to generate control commands.
 Warhead MIM- 104 high-explosive , weighing 90 kilograms. According to the tactical and technical characteristics , SAM "Patriot" is able to intercept destroy targets flying at speeds of up to 2500 kilometers per hour, at distances up to 100 kilometers ( ballistic - to 25 kilometers) and at altitudes up to 25 kilometers ( ballistic - to 11 kilometers). Complex reaction time of 15 seconds . SAM can simultaneously fire up to 8 targets , floating missiles every 3 seconds .Declared by the manufacturer is the probability of intercept targets : 0.8-0.9 aircraft , tactical missiles 0.4-0.6 . Baptism of fire " Patriots " took during the Gulf War . In early 1991, coalition aircraft bombed Iraqi territory. Saddam Hussein's army said ballistic missiles, " Abbas " and " Hussein " on the Saudi city of Dhahran , which was located near a U.S. military base . Iraqi missiles - options Soviet P-11 , developed by Sergei Korolev still have no means of electronic warfare .

Americans anticipated this reaction and placed in Saudi Arabia and Israel several batteries "Patriot". Iraqi missiles launches pinpointing American satellites , aircraft systems transmit data AWACS. SAM -horizon radars helped NATO radar in Turkey.Despite the ideal conditions for interception : no mass start, decoys and radio - the efficiency of the " Patriot " was low . Of 91 missiles fired by Iraq were shot down at a rate of 45 158 anti-aircraft missiles . In most cases there is damage to the body of Iraqi missiles and not destroy the warhead that does not reduce the damage caused by the area fire . As a result, at the U.S. base at Dharani killed 28 soldiers.Combat application revealed other shortcomings American SAM sensitivity to clogging sand generators and radar equipment - to unstable power supply . Were unauthorized launches . The main minus " Patriot " was a short range and altitude interception targets - less than 20 and 7 kilometers from the covers of the object , respectively. In other words, an "umbrella " that SAM "Patriot" spreads over its area of ​​responsibility , turned scanty . 

Anything that fliesDome, which covers the wards objects S-400 is much more spacious - 400 kilometers in radius and height. Externally SAM resembles its predecessor, the S-300 - this is done on purpose, so that the enemy could not understand what system he is confronted . But the possibility of S-400 indicators cover any other defense complex in the world. No wonder it is called "Triumph" .
Eyes SAM radar is noise stop Omnidirection two way PAR . It detects all naturally occurring species of flying objects - from stealth aircraft to hypersonic missiles - at a distance of 600 kilometers. Radar classifies goals away from their foreign determines the degree of danger each of the last coordinates and transmits them to the point of military control . Meanwhile illumination radar with a range of 400 kilometers takes potential targets for support.A unique feature of "Triumph" that will connect to the additional modules to increase the effective work as a whole, and certain types of goals. Recently in the C- 400 equipped with a shelf near Moscow Aerospace Defense received five all-altitude detectors capable of simultaneously identify up to 100 targets of different classes . To intercept aircraft and missiles carried on stealth technologies , screening decoys are special radar "Gamma" , "Orion" , " Enemy " . There are modules to form closed channels of communication between SAM at a distance of 90 kilometers , electronic protection systems and jammers , radar target detection and many other useful devices. 

When the target being identified and captured, is to launch one of the five types of missiles , which is equipped with S-400 . Missiles designed to destroy various targets at different heights , allowing " Triumph" to create multi-layered air defense . 9M96E product , for example, is able to work outside the visibility of ground stations guidance. This property is provided with its radically new homing developed - and the whole S-400 - in CDB "Almaz". The missile can be induced on the target and on command from the ground, and independently, without requiring illumination radar tracking . For all types of missiles can be installed managed warheads possessing both stopping ( structural failure purpose ) and neutralizing ( disabling warheads ) effect. The probability of hitting a ballistic missile warheads and drones shock increases in half to two times .All materials used in the S-400 missiles have a " cold start " . They are thrown out of the launch canister powder catapult 30 meters gas rudders turn missile towards the target , and then turned on boosters . This increases the range and reduces the range of the engagement . And thanks to the vertical launch SAMs can bombard targets in any direction without turning the launcher. Speaking of boundaries: the lower limit of SAM "Patriot" - 60 meters. American flying below the goal set passes . S-400 throws objects at a height of five meters above the ground.
According to the manufacturer high performance have been confirmed in the course of exercises and tests. During firing at the Kapustin Yar "Triumph" hit a target moving at a speed of 2,800 meters per second. The second goal was launched ballistic to a great height from a great distance .- It was a type of small target " Boar ." Detect it - it's like finding a pencil in a haystack. But the world at an altitude of 16 kilometers it was destroyed - said Colonel-General Yuri Solovyov .