Russia’s new S-550 air defence system has successfully passed state trials and entered combat service.

Axar.az reports that a source close to the Russian defence ministry has told TASS.

"The S-550 air defence system has successfully completed state trials. The first S-550 brigade has entered combat duty," he said.

The source described the new system as "an absolutely new and unrivalled mobile system of strategic missile defence," capable of "hitting spacecraft, ballistic missile reentry vehicles and hypersonic targets at altitudes of tens of thousands of kilometres."

According to the source, the new system becomes a part of Russia's comprehensive missile and air defence, comprised of Pantsir systems (low-altitude), long-range S-350, S-400 and S-500 systems and S-550 (in space).

Official sources have not yet confirmed this information to TASS.