Continued Ukrainian strikes on missile-component and defense plants push the Kremlin toward two responses. It orders expanded domestic air-defense and counter-UAS output from Rostec and Almaz-Antey. It also scapegoats officials responsible for procurement and site protection.
Visible hits on strategic production sites raise the demand for point air defense of the rear. That strengthens the case for publicized production increases.
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Successful strikes expose failures in site protection and procurement, which the Kremlin habitually answers with corruption and negligence prosecutions.
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Parallel strikes on energy and aviation targets add a second, independent driver of air-defense demand, converging on the same production response.