Radio Free Europe is claiming that Russian social media is abuzz with the question “Where the hell were our missile defences” in regard to Syria.
The Russian Federation made a big show of deploying its S-400 surface-to-air missile system after Turkey shot down one of its aircraft nearly two years ago.
Speculation ranges from “the system didn’t work” to “the Americans deliberately picked a path to avoid the systems” to “Russia chose not to use it.”
S-400 SAM systems use four missiles to cover a range of distance from in close to hundreds of kilometres away.
Aytech Bizhev, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force, told Interfax that the “flight path was set to bypass our missile-defense system so that they would not enter our strike range. The Americans are also not idiots.”
but there was this in the article… .
Nonetheless, the perceived inefficacy of the S-400s prompted an outburst of snarky commentary on Russian language social networks, with one Twitter user writing: “Listen, I just want to check — is Moscow also secured by S-300 and S-400s?”
More at RFE/RL.
Sometimes its good to see what our own official organs are putting out over the air.