I think they do it on purpose, it's only just ukraine, why waste your best equipment for it? why potentially give away military secrets in case they are getting captured by NATO
Both the US and France made the mistake to send their best weapons, only for them to get sold in black market, and then Russia managed to buy them, they now reverse engineered them and are able to detect and counter US/FR missiles
Hence the reason why the US is now against sending most of their weapons, too late
The only weapons the US won't send are ones that can hit Russia proper. Who cares if a HIMARS missile is reverse engineered, Russia's GPS equivalent barely works. It's so bad that their pilots are using commercial GPS equipment instead of their equivalent.
And what do you mean detect and counter US missiles? They've had radar for decades, they've always been able to see them. The issue is a matter of the quantity of the HIMARS missiles coming down, and a lack of time to shoot them down because again, they are missiles.
Both the US and France made the mistake to send their best weapons, only for them to get sold in black market, and then Russia managed to buy them, they now reverse engineered them and are able to detect and counter US/FR missiles
Hence the reason why the US is now against sending most of their weapons, too late
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-will-not-send-ukrain...