Dubai. November 15th. INTERFAX-AVN - RF has started delivering S-400 systems to India ahead of schedule, the first regimental set will be shipped at the end of the year, the head of Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheev said.
"All the equipment of the first regimental set will be delivered to India at the end of 2021. Deliveries are carried out in accordance with the terms of the contract. The shipment of the property began ahead of schedule," Mikheev told reporters at the Dubai Airshow.
According to him, the Indian specialists who will operate the first regimental set have completed their training and left for their homeland.
"Immediately after the New Year, our specialists will arrive in India to deliver equipment at its locations," Mikheev said.
The head of the company also named Rosoboronexport's portfolio of orders for air defense equipment - almost $14 billion (anti-aircraft missile systems and complexes, radar and RLC, automated control systems, electronic warfare and RTR, anti-UAVS).
Russia has started supplying India with the first batch of S-400 air defense systems, Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation, told Interfax yesterday.
"The first deliveries have already begun," Shugaev said at the Dubai Airshow-2021.
It was officially reported that in early October 2018, on the sidelines of the Russian-Indian negotiations at the highest level, a contract was signed for the supply of S-400 Triumph air defense systems to India (Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region). Under the contract with a total value of $5.43 billion, India will receive five regimental sets of S-400. It is expected that the first regimental set will be delivered by the end of 2021, and all systems - by the end of 2024.
On February 14, 2019, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov announced that the Russian Federation had begun receiving an advance from India for the S-400. A few days later, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov announced the start of production of the S-400 for India.
The S-400 Triumph air defense system (developed and manufactured by Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region) is designed to defeat strategic and tactical aircraft, ballistic missiles, hypersonic targets and other means of air attack in the conditions of electronic and other types of counteraction. The system is capable of hitting aerodynamic targets at a range of up to 400 km, as well as ballistic targets flying at speeds up to 4.8 km/s at altitudes from several meters to several tens of kilometers at a range of up to 60 km.
