Does this mean that if the Russian army deployed somewhere and felt they needed some serious air defense, the S-300V would provide it to troops in the field? Was this system used in Georgia/South Ossetia? IIRC SA-17s were deployed with Russian ground forces there, was that the longest ranged system?
I think deploying a S-300V to face the threat of the Georgian aviation is a sort of “overkill”. With Buk systems should be more than enough. The S-300V was designed to confront heavy NATO air-raids. Obviously Georgia can not mount such king of air-raids.
By the way, I don’t know what will happen with the S-300V family and may be it is in a dead path. Note that only one improvement cycle was achieved (from S-300V to S-300VM). Then, compare whit the numerous improvements of the S-300P family (from the initial static system to the heavily modified and enhanced S-400 system).
May be the lack of sales success combined with the high cost of the S-300V/VM killed this awesome system. We should wait and see.
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