Not even a miss? Did the Russians turn it off after we assured them none of their forces were being targeted?
RE: Not even a miss? Did the Russians turn it off after we assured them none of their forces were being targeted?
I suspected that when I heard that Trump actually gave the Ruskies a heads up as to his intentions.
Before I make an assumption that the S-400 is junk I too would want to look a little deeper into the subject. See if Ivan turned it off, or the Syrians were busy at a Goat Orgy first.
I suspect they did not attempt to fire the weapons.
They knew they would give away the actual abilities of the weapon, would not stop US from destroying the target and they knew the target was illicit weapons.
They were warned we were about to, they chose to let it happen.
Might have been a very smart move.
We would have been listening very carefully for the signatures of their system.
Far better for it to be untried and unproven than to become a known quantity with countermeasures in place.
T?he Russians claimed to have shot down over 70 missiles.
Israel did something similar when it took out the Bushear plant back in the 00’s. Syria went dark, the Israeli’s took out the plant, and they came home and had lunch.
My guess is the systems were a) not on line, b) not ready for prime time - potemkin village style, or c) disabled through something clever.