{
  "id": "s-400",
  "name": "S-400 Triumf",
  "aliases": [
    "SA-21 Growler",
    "Triumf"
  ],
  "domain": "missile",
  "country": "RUS",
  "category": "Long-range surface-to-air missile system",
  "status": "in-service",
  "fielded": 2007,
  "operators": [
    "BLR",
    "CHN",
    "DZA",
    "IND",
    "RUS",
    "TUR"
  ],
  "prolif_count": 6,
  "summary": "The S-400 name refers to a family of long-range air defense systems. The system family is only thought to have a domestic and an export variant, and only the former is treated as its own system of systems within this record, due to a lack of confirmed information relating to the export variant.",
  "specs": [
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Targets",
      "section": "system",
      "v": "Fixed-wing, rotary-wing, IRBMs, UAVs, cruise missiles",
      "src": [
        "weg-s-400"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Configuration",
      "section": "system",
      "v": "Group/brigade 2-8 bns and 91N6 E2. Each bn has 6-12 trailer launchers (TLs, aka mobile erector launchers or MELs) , 55K6E 8x8 van, 5T58-2 SAM transporter, 22T6-2 loading crane, and radars.",
      "src": [
        "weg-s-400"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Deployment time",
      "section": "system",
      "v": "To deploy the system from the traveling position to set system assets: 5 - 10 min At ready from deployed position : 3 min",
      "src": [
        "weg-s-400"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "range_max_km",
      "v": 250,
      "note": "Effective range of the 40N6 interceptor as listed in the source card",
      "src": [
        "weg-s-400"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "label": "Launcher",
      "section": "mobility",
      "v": "5P85TE2 trailer launcher towed by a BAZ-64022 6x6 tractor; 3 x 40N6 and 4 x 9M96E2 per launcher (likely mix)",
      "k": "",
      "src": [
        "weg-s-400"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    }
  ],
  "payloads": [
    {
      "name": "40N6",
      "role": "Long-range interceptor (big missile)",
      "src": [
        "weg-s-400"
      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "caps": {
        "Type": "Solid-fuel",
        "Guidance": "Track-Via-Missile, missile active radar homing",
        "Warhead": "Frag-HE",
        "Warhead weight": "180+ kg"
      },
      "range_km": 250
    },
    {
      "src": [
        "weg-s-400"
      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "name": "9M96E2 / 9M96M",
      "role": "Medium-range interceptor (small missile)",
      "caps": {
        "Packaging": "Four per canister, in place of one large missile"
      }
    }
  ],
  "variants": [
    {
      "name": "S-400E",
      "text": "Suspected export variant with reduced characteristics, to include modified or differing communications equipment, operating frequencies of radars, ECM protection, and missiles.",
      "src": [
        "weg-s-400"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "art": "tel",
  "image": {
    "file": "s-400.jpg",
    "thumb": "s-400-thumb.jpg",
    "credit": "Vitaly V. Kuzmin",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S-400_Triumf-34.jpg",
    "title": "File:S-400 Triumf-34.jpg"
  },
  "verified": null,
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-05",
      "change": "Entry created from the Worldwide Equipment Guide (ODIN)"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-05",
      "change": "Editorial correction: Moved the launcher out of the payload list; added the 9M96 interceptor described in the card"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-06",
      "change": "Added photo (CC BY-SA 4.0)"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.defensepedia.com/systems/s-400.html",
  "sources": {
    "weg-s-400": {
      "title": "S-400 Triumph (SA-21 Growler) Russian Long-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) System",
      "publisher": "U.S. Army TRADOC G-2 Worldwide Equipment Guide (ODIN)",
      "url": "https://odin.t2com.army.mil/WEG/Asset/S-400_Triumph_SA-21_Growler_Russian_Long-Range_Surface-to-Air_Missile_SAM_System",
      "published": "2026-03-20",
      "tier": 1,
      "checked": "2026-10-10"
    }
  }
}