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.
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.