It's interesting to me that the Neptune was supposedly used when it was used (early spring which was in line with its expected completion date) to sink the Moskva, but that immediately after (today) the Russians completely destroyed the factory building the Neptune in Kiev.
What's confusing is why the Russians didn't do this in the first place. Because the Neptune was not combat ready in January...or in February, presumably not in March, but they wait until it is confirmed combat capable to destroy the factory?
What makes sense is that this seems very Russian way of doing things.
US is very aggressive, offensive, and proactive. The US way of war kills hundreds of thousands in really easy battlespaces (Iraq was a cakewalk with no advanced weaponry or military industry of any kind). Hell ISIS was reduced to turning old drill pipes into mortars they were that ******* desperate.
But the Russians, going up against a much harder enemy - seem to plod along like typical Russians. Very conservative, and very reactionary.
US would have blown the hell out of that factory day one, and probably the school and the hospital next to it, and also killed everyone in the local orphanage. Not to mention probably blow up a cemetery to desecrate some dead ***** too (US did that outside of Tikrit). Oh and drop a bomb on an embassy too by "accident".
Why Russia left this factory til now is kind of a mystery to me, but doesn't seem outside of their tip-toe ways.
One of Ukraine's most important new weapons systems, a locally-made anti-ship missile, could be just a few months too late to make any difference in the fighting if Russia invades this winter.
www.forbes.com