Russland hat heute Kiew mit einer S-400-Rakete angegriffen, die erst letzten Monat hergestellt wurde, wie aus Trümmern hervorgeht. Der Fund deutet darauf hin, dass Russland fast sofort frisch produzierte Raketen einsetzt, was entweder auf erschöpfte Vorräte oder eine Verlagerung hin zu Just-in-Time-Kampflieferungen hindeutet.

As the S-400 has been in service since ~2007, there had been roughly ~15 years of „peacetime production stockpile“ available before the start of the invasion, so the cycling through any sort of reserve stockpile appears plausible.

While S-400 can overcome all but the most capable SAM systems (*Patriot, IRIS-SLM…*), they underperform in a ground attack role (*their warhead is at ~180kg, which is about twice of what the heavier Shahed/Geran variants carry*), making these kinds of attacks extremely „high cost – low benefit“ for the orcish military, especially when they aren’t assigned to HVT of strategic importance, as seems to be the case more often then not.

My uneducated guess is that Russia predominantly employs S-400 in a ground attack role that failed post-production testing and didn’t qualify for an air defense role as this would explain why some random S-200, S-300 or S-400 appear in the swarm attacks on Kyiv every couple weeks.

Correct me if i‘m wrong but isn‘t the S-400 an anti air missile system?

They dont encript the date when the missle was built?! Wtf leave it to the russians to find excedingly dumb ideas, theire goated at it