> Do we even know if they have many S-X00s set up there, already? The alternative is that S-X00 systems are too expensive for Russians to deploy to protect the

> Do we even know if they have many S-X00s set up there, already? The alternative is that S-X00 systems are too expensive for Russians to deploy to protect their command posts and ammo dumps. Which... seems unlikely? I think its more likely that the Russian systems failed, rather than the Russian army being too cheap / incompetent to deploy them to important locations like that. ------ We also have the Moskova cruiser, which was using similar missile defense systems. Given that the Moskova sank vs a Ukrainian domestic cruise missile (the Neptune missile), we know its missile defense system was defeated by subsonic "normal" missiles. ------- I really don't know why we'd ever invest into hypersonics, at least against Russia. Its abundantly clear to me that their missile defenses just can't handle normal missiles, let alone saturation attacks or hypersonics or whatnot.