The new S-550 anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) has successfully passed tests and entered combat duty, TASS reports, citing a source close to the military department.

“The S-550 air defense system has successfully completed state tests. The first S-550 brigade took up combat duty, ”he said.

According to the source, the S-550 is a new mobile strategic missile defense system that has no analogues. She knows how to hit spacecraft, warheads of intercontinental ballistic missiles, hypersonic targets at a distance of several tens of thousands of kilometers.

Earlier it was reported that the S-550 air defense system, developed on the basis of the S-500 Prometheus, will, together with its prototype, provide anti-missile and anti-space defense of strategic facilities in Russia.

It also became known that the S-550 will be able to shoot down the US space-based reusable X-37 unmanned vehicles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

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