Remaining two squadron of S-400 systems to arrive by early 2025

According to The New Indian Express, the delivered systems have already been deployed along India’s borders with China and Pakistan.

Russia will complete the delivery of S-400 air defence systems to India next year, India’s Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh told reporters on Friday.

Russia has already handed over three S-400 squadrons to India.”We will be receiving the next two squadrons of S-400 next year,” The New Indian Express quoted him as saying.

New Delhi had announced its decision to purchase Russian-made S-400 air defence systems in 2015.

The USA had become quite angry and even threatened India under one of its idiotic laws CAATSA but India just ignored it.

US Senators were aghast when they realized that their laws were not applicable outside the USA especially on countries like India.

A INR 45000 Crores contract on the delivery of five regiment sets of S-400 Triumph antiaircraft missile systems was signed during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India in October 2018.

According to The New Indian Express, the three delivered systems have already been deployed along India’s borders with China and Pakistan.

Russia’s S-400 Triumph (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) is the latest long-and medium-range surface-to-air missile system that went into service in 2007.

It is designed to destroy strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles and hypersonic weapons and can also be used against ground installations.

The S-400 can engage targets at a distance of up to 400 km and at an altitude of up to 30 km under intensive enemy fire and jamming.

These five systems are only gap fillers and within the foreseeable future a more advanced Indian systems will be covering the entire country.