RE: And, at $200m per system, I don’t blame the Russians for not exposing that system to our countermeasures.
Well, all those warnings by the Russkies that they will shoot down any missiles fired on Syria are baloney then.
See here for one:
https://nypost.com/2018/04/11/russia-warns-any-us-missiles-fired-at-syria-will-be-shot-down/
Putin talks good but he knows the facade of a decent military would collapse if he actually used it against a real decent military. They’ve been announcing programs for ships, tanks, missiles and planes for years and in big quantities, but they rarely if ever deliver. It’s takes them 9 years to build a frigate and despite all the announcements this century, most of their navy is still 30 - 50 years old and in terrible shape.
” ...all those warnings by the Russkies that they will shoot down any missiles fired on Syria are baloney then.”
Yes; what good is a missile defense system if it is considered too vunerable to counterattack to deploy?