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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷4/09/2017 7:08:59 am PDT

rferl.org

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.