India and Russia signed an agreement to supply anti-aircraft missile systems s-400. This was stated by the defence Minister of India Manohar Parrikar, reports RIA Novosti. According to him, India expects to start deliveries as soon as possible”.
In March 2016, the Deputy head of the Federal service for military-technical cooperation Vladimir Drozdov said that Russia has prepared a draft agreement for the supply of systems s-400 and submitted it for signature to the Indian side.
Earlier, in December 2015, the Indian press reported that the military Department of the country has approved the purchase of five dvuhpilonnogo regiments of s-400 system and six thousand rockets for a total amount of about six billion dollars.
S-400 “Triumph” — multi-channel long-range air defense missile system, with several types of missiles of various ranges. Developed in 2000-e years in the NGO “Almaz” under the leadership of Alexander Leman in the development of solutions applied in the system s-300PMU-2 “Favorit”. Entered service in 2007.
According to the manufacturer, the s-400 is capable of hitting all available means of air attack, including aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles and tactical ballistic missiles with maximum speeds up to 4.8 kilometers per second.
Launch customer of the s-400 system is China, he in the fall of 2014 bought six divisions in excess of three billion dollars.
