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      That would be the s-400 they destroyed the day before yesterday.

      With a cruise missile. One of the things an s-400 is supposed to shoot down.

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        In the Russians’ defense, it’s harder to shoot down a cruise missile than a civilian airliner with almost 300 innocent passengers including 80 children.

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        As always treat this with a grain of salt, but I heard their tactic was to overwhelm it with decoy drones before sending in the actual cruise missile. Kind of like what the US did during desert storm over Baghdad

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      “The truck-mounted systems are estimated to cost $12 million each.”