Tests of certain elements of Russia's next-generation S-500 air defence missile system, including its launcher, are being completed, the director-general of the Design Bureau for Special Machine-Building (part of Almaz-Antey company), has said. This reported by Sputnik.

"In the interests of the air and missile defence troops, company experts have created units of the next-generation Triumfator-M mobile air defence system ... A launcher, components of a multi-functional locator and a missile defense locator, an equipped chassis for a command post, and transport units for an early-warning radar system have been developed, and their tests are being completed," Vladimir Dolbenkov has said in an interview with the Russian Defence magazine.