New Delhi: Formidable’s 1st Squadron S 400 The Triumph surface-to-air missile system is almost operational in northwest India, but the delivery of the second squadron from Russia has been delayed due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Russia has started sending simulators and other training equipment to India for the ‘Training Squadron’ of the Air Defense Systems. “But the second ‘operational’ squadron, whose deliveries were to start in June, will be delayed by at least a month,” a Defense Ministry source told TOI on Friday.
The IAF received the delivery of the first S-400 squadron in thousands of containers via air and sea routes in December. In all, the IAF expects to receive five S-400 squadrons, over a span of six months, under a $5.43 billion (Rs 40,000 crore) contract with Russia in 2018.
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The first S-400 squadron has been deployed in Punjab to cater to the Western Front with Pakistan and to safeguard critical defense installations such as Ambala Airbase for the new Rafale fighter jets.
Other squadrons will also be suitably positioned to meet air threats from both China and Pakistan before entering Indian airspace. The highly automated mobile system can detect, track and destroy hostile strategic bombers, jets, spy planes, missiles and drones at a range of 380 km.
Each S-400 squadron has two missile batteries with 128 missiles with intercept ranges of 120, 200, 250 and 380 km, as well as long-range acquisition and engagement radar and all-terrain transporter-erector vehicles.
In a recent two-plus-two dialogue in Washington, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had asked the Biden administration to purchase India’s S-400 systems under CAATSA (Combating America’s Adversaries through Sanctions). A decision on restrictions or exemptions is yet to be taken. Act), which seeks to prevent countries from buying Russian weapons or Iranian oil.
Incidentally, the US had previously imposed sanctions on China and Turkey for the induction of the S-400 system. India has told the US that the S-400 systems were an “urgent national security need” to counter aggressive neighbors such as China and Pakistan. Also, the acquisition process for them had started before CAATSA came into force in 2017.
India had also previously worked on an alternative banking arrangement to pay the 15% advance to Russia and the first few installments linked to the delivery in the S-400 deal. Concurrently, India has over the years turned to countries such as the US, France and Israel for its defense needs, akin to Russia’s dislike.
Russia has started sending simulators and other training equipment to India for the ‘Training Squadron’ of the Air Defense Systems. “But the second ‘operational’ squadron, whose deliveries were to start in June, will be delayed by at least a month,” a Defense Ministry source told TOI on Friday.
The IAF received the delivery of the first S-400 squadron in thousands of containers via air and sea routes in December. In all, the IAF expects to receive five S-400 squadrons, over a span of six months, under a $5.43 billion (Rs 40,000 crore) contract with Russia in 2018.
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The first S-400 squadron has been deployed in Punjab to cater to the Western Front with Pakistan and to safeguard critical defense installations such as Ambala Airbase for the new Rafale fighter jets.
Other squadrons will also be suitably positioned to meet air threats from both China and Pakistan before entering Indian airspace. The highly automated mobile system can detect, track and destroy hostile strategic bombers, jets, spy planes, missiles and drones at a range of 380 km.
Each S-400 squadron has two missile batteries with 128 missiles with intercept ranges of 120, 200, 250 and 380 km, as well as long-range acquisition and engagement radar and all-terrain transporter-erector vehicles.
In a recent two-plus-two dialogue in Washington, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had asked the Biden administration to purchase India’s S-400 systems under CAATSA (Combating America’s Adversaries through Sanctions). A decision on restrictions or exemptions is yet to be taken. Act), which seeks to prevent countries from buying Russian weapons or Iranian oil.
Incidentally, the US had previously imposed sanctions on China and Turkey for the induction of the S-400 system. India has told the US that the S-400 systems were an “urgent national security need” to counter aggressive neighbors such as China and Pakistan. Also, the acquisition process for them had started before CAATSA came into force in 2017.
India had also previously worked on an alternative banking arrangement to pay the 15% advance to Russia and the first few installments linked to the delivery in the S-400 deal. Concurrently, India has over the years turned to countries such as the US, France and Israel for its defense needs, akin to Russia’s dislike.