Interesting thread on the corruption around maintenance and modernization in the RUS navy.
Ripe for grift.
sooo a lot of SAMs were made with shoddy parts.
The good ones were used up early. leaving a lot of duds.
What is left in the RUS inventory is bad.
Unlike patrolling off the coast of Syria, where your primary weapon is your fire control radar (you scare people off by 'painting' them), against the Ukrainians, you kind of actually have to launch missiles; and you'd quickly run thru the "safe" missiles for tests and hit duds.

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