Earlier, Izvestia, citing sources in the military-industrial complex, reported on the testing of Russia’s S-500 Prometey air defence systems in Syria. There is no need for testing and using S-500 anti-aircraft missile systems in Syria, Izvestia, a Russian newspaper, cited the Ministry of Defence as saying. “The S-500 is designed to deal with ballistic and aerodynamic targets at long ranges.... 

The next-generation S-500 Prometey surface-to-air missile system, also known as the 55R6M Triumfator-M, will allow Russia to protect large areas from the most lethal offensive weapons, including hypersonic weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, defense analyst Victor Murakhovsky told Radio Sputnik. Murakhovsky described the S-500 as an advanced, unified, multi-purpose, integrated anti-aircraft...