I dont have any evidence but keep wondering if there is a public response and a more hushhush realpolitik thing going on under the surface

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    Thatonecoder raised an intriguing countertheory, that they could be quietly putting together their own homegrown version (likely with rare parts from the US i would add). Hope they are

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      If they are making their own then they aren’t using them. I refuse to believe that they wouldn’t if they could. Therefore the US has probably told them to not use them in exchange for steady re-supply or intelligence access.

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        This is a game of shadows, too; Russia can’t know about it until it is too late for them.