Russia’s Air Defenders Give Insight on S-400 Missile System

Russia’s state-of-the-art S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system can effectively differentiate between airborne targets and those moving on the ground, Russian media reported, citing members of an Airspace Command regiment deployed outside Moscow.

What makes the S-400 so special is its intelligent radar, which can “see” just about everything both in the air and on the ground, and can easily discern even a tiny aircraft from, say, a truck moving on the ground.

“Even if a plane is flying low and with the same speed as a vehicle moving on the ground, the radar will show it on the screen,” the officers told Zvezda TV on Thursday.

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