Zero Hedge: Pentagon Admits Russian Air Defenses "Changing U.S. Calculus" Abroad
As the West has for the past two years distracted itself and obsessed over claimed Russian election meddling and those sinister online "disinformation campaigns," the Kremlin has been busy establishing air superiority in places US aircraft could at one time operate with impunity.
According to a new lengthy report in the Wall Street Journal Russia's S-400 antiaircraft missile system, which much of the western public has recently begun to hear about in the context of Syria, is now "changing the calculus of the U.S. and its allies in potential hot spots" as Russia is erecting a "new Iron Curtain" in the form of a series of effective and far reaching anti-air defenses stretching from the Arctic to the Middle East.
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WNU Editor: The Russian S-400 antiaircraft missile system has received praise from a number of sources. It is also a system that China, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and others now want in their arsenals.