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S-400 hailed for Operation Sindoor role: What is this Russia-made weapon system, how India bought it under US retaliation cloud
August 11, 2025 12:11 pm
Operation Sindoor, S-400 missile system: What makes the S-400 missile system so valuable? What risk of US action was India facing when it made this weapons deal with Russia, and what happened after? We explain.
Crediting Russian S-400, IAF chief says India took down 5 Pak fighters, one ‘large aircraft’ during Op Sindoor
August 10, 2025 7:32 am
Operation Sindoor, Pakistani fighter jet losses: Apart from the aircraft, there are a large number of UAVs and drones, some of whose missiles had fallen in the Indian territory, the IAF chief said in Bengaluru.
Western sanctions will not impact supply of S-400 missile systems to India: Russia
March 03, 2022 12:31 pm
In October 2018, India had signed a USD 5 billion deal with Russia to buy five units of the S-400 air defence missile systems, despite a warning from the Trump administration that going ahead with the contract may invite US sanctions.
Eye on China and Pakistan, first S-400 unit deployed in Punjab
January 01, 2022 8:54 am
🔴 India's deployment will provide a major fillip to its air defence capacity as the weapon system is capable of neutralising assets from over 400 km away.
Moscow plays down Beijing, pledges deeper Delhi ties: S-400 to Afghanistan
April 07, 2021 6:54 am
Incidentally, Moscow played the meeting ground for Indian and Chinese ministers last year amid the ongoing border standoff.
US Defence Secretary arrives today, may discuss S-400 deal
March 19, 2021 7:20 am
On Wednesday, US Senator Bob Menendez, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had written to Defence Secretary Lloyd J Austin ahead of his India visit, raising the purchase of S-400 air defence missile systems from Russia.
Explained: India's caution as US sanctions Turkey over the S-400 deal
December 23, 2020 12:25 pm
While India has got a waiver from the outgoing Trump administration on the S-400 air defence system, Delhi hopes that the incoming Biden administration would not work towards reversing the decision.
Possibility of US sanctions on India remain on table: top diplomat
May 21, 2020 1:46 pm
Last year, India made the first tranche of payment of around USD 800 million to Russia for the missile systems. The S-400 is known as Russia's most advanced long-range surface-to-air missile defence system.
Turkey says it bought Russian S-400s to use them, not put them aside
November 16, 2019 4:53 pm
A top aide to Erdogan said on Friday that Turkish and US officials had begun working as part of a joint mechanism aiming to evaluate the impact of the S-400s on the F-35s.
'Everything is going as per plan': Putin on delivery of S-400 missiles to India
November 15, 2019 9:03 pm
India announced its intention to acquire S-400 'Triumf' surface-to-air missile systems in 2015. The contract worth USD 5.43 billion was signed during the visit of President Putin to India last year.
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