For Saudi Arabia, an oil field attack was a disaster. For Russia, it's a weapons sales pitch.
The attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities last weekend were a disaster for both Riyadh and Washington, with weapons allegedly made in Iran circumventing expensive U.S. missile defense systems.
But in Moscow, news of the attack was greeted as yet another chance to mock the United States and its allies — all while extolling the virtues of Russia’s own missile defense technology.
“We still remember the fantastic U.S. missiles that failed to hit a target more than a year ago, while now the brilliant U.S. air defense systems could not repel an attack,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing on Friday. “These are all links in a chain.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Ankara for a meeting with Turkish and Iranian leaders on Monday, went further by suggesting that Saudi Arabia would have been saved from Saturday’s attack if they had purchased a missile defense system made by Russia.
“The political leadership of Saudi Arabia just needs to make a wise state decision,” Putin said on Monday, pointing to the purchase of the S-300 missile system by Iran and the S-400 missile system by Turkey.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/09/20/saudi-arabia-an-oil-field-attack-was-disaster-russia-its-weapons-sales-pitch/?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
While the S-300 and S-400 are pretty good systems my guess is the drones that attacked the oil fields flew too low to be detected by any radar.