Saudis aren’t going to fire at US aircraft. And the Russkies aren’t about to give the USAF a close up exam of their S400 whivh is what will happen if they were to give them to the Kingdom. I don’t have the slightest idea what Putin is doing. All I know is that a good friend who spent 25 years as a Soviet/Russian/Central Asian analyst with the DIA told me in 2005 “Putin” he said, “ is both evil and insane.”
“” “” Saudis aren’t going to fire at US aircraft. And the Russkies aren’t about to give the USAF a close up exam of their S400 “” “”
It is a commercial technology and constantly updated. What do you think they thought selling it to China and Turkey? Does anyone believe US won’t put hand on anything fielded in Turkey? An idea for Russian MIC now is not to sit on empire of dirt but to move stock and to develop new systems making earlier absolete and sell new ones and on and on.
That’s a competitive advantage over American defence companies who only has the edge for US military.