India bought the S-400 Triumf air defence system models in 2018 for $5.4 billion
By:
Kimberly Rodrigues
Russia is ready to satisfy its dedication to ship S-400 anti-aircraft programs to India inside the established timeframe, a senior Russian defence export official mentioned on Monday (14).
Being the biggest arms importer globally, India depends predominantly on Russian know-how for conventional weaponry. Nonetheless, authorities in New Delhi have expressed apprehensions concerning the potential affect of Russia’s battle in Ukraine on the scheduled provide of weapons and gear.
“The manufacturing of S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft missile programs is being carried out in response to schedule,” Interfax quoted Dmitry Shugaev, head of Russia’s Federal Service for Navy-Technical Cooperation, as saying.
“The supply of the gear of the S-400 Triumf system is predicted to be accomplished inside the agreed time-frame,” he mentioned in feedback made throughout an armed forces occasion.
India bought the S-400 Triumf air defence system models in 2018 for $5.4 billion. Three of the programs have been delivered and two extra are nonetheless awaited.
The deliveries are scheduled to be accomplished by the top of 2024, in response to information company Interfax.
The Indian Air Power mentioned in March that the warfare in Ukraine was holding up very important defence provides from Russia.
New Delhi has been in search of lately to diversify imports or exchange them with home-built {hardware}. It’s shopping for French fighter jets, Israeli drones and U.S. jet engines.
However Russia nonetheless accounted for $8.5 billion of the $18.3 billion India has spent on arms imports since 2017, in response to knowledge from the Stockholm Worldwide Peace Analysis Institute.
(Reuters)
