If the S-500 air defense system is so good... then WHY wasn't it deployed already during an ongoing war with Ukraine?
Did Russia want a flagship to be sunk, oil platforms to be destroyed or more destruction in the Donetsk region before deploying S-500?
Or... was Russia afraid that the S-500 system would prove incapable of defending against missile attacks? They didn't want the entire world to realize that the S-500 is over-hyped.
The value in keeping the properties of an asset like a new air-defense or missile-defense system under wraps will always be weighed against what it can do VS the older equivalent systems - assuming it exists in numbers that are field-deployment ready. So that will have been the calculus that the military planners will have been working at. Imagining if you will for one second that perhaps some nation actually has a military with the desire to win conflicts quickly and cheaply, contrasted to dragging them out indefinitely to funnel maximum $ to defense contractors. Though I'm sure that corruption is certainly present in the Russian military also.
Deploying the S-500 now will be to counter whatever UK/Germany have been threatening, now that the ante has been upped by the halting of the energy pipeline to Germany... and winter as they say, is coming. Ukraine really doesn't even really exist as a nation any longer essentially, just as a battlefield thats yet to be claimed by a clear victor once there is a cessation of hostilities.
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If the S-500 air defense system is so good... then WHY wasn't it deployed already during an ongoing war with Ukraine?
Did Russia want a flagship to be sunk, oil platforms to be destroyed or more destruction in the Donetsk region before deploying S-500?
Or... was Russia afraid that the S-500 system would prove incapable of defending against missile attacks? They didn't want the entire world to realize that the S-500 is over-hyped.
The value in keeping the properties of an asset like a new air-defense or missile-defense system under wraps will always be weighed against what it can do VS the older equivalent systems - assuming it exists in numbers that are field-deployment ready. So that will have been the calculus that the military planners will have been working at. Imagining if you will for one second that perhaps some nation actually has a military with the desire to win conflicts quickly and cheaply, contrasted to dragging them out indefinitely to funnel maximum $ to defense contractors. Though I'm sure that corruption is certainly present in the Russian military also.
Deploying the S-500 now will be to counter whatever UK/Germany have been threatening, now that the ante has been upped by the halting of the energy pipeline to Germany... and winter as they say, is coming. Ukraine really doesn't even really exist as a nation any longer essentially, just as a battlefield thats yet to be claimed by a clear victor once there is a cessation of hostilities.