{"id":303686,"date":"2018-10-03T06:28:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T06:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303686"},"modified":"2018-10-03T06:28:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T06:28:45","slug":"india-russia-likely-to-sign-s-400-surface-to-air-missile-deal-during-putins-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-russia-likely-to-sign-s-400-surface-to-air-missile-deal-during-putins-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Russia likely to sign S-400 surface-to-air missile deal during Putin&#8217;s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300362 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/s-400-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/s-400-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/s-400-540x420.jpg 540w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/s-400.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India and Russia will sign a $5 billion deal to supply Delhi with S-400 surface-to-air missile system this week. The signing of the deal for Moscow&#8217;s most advanced air defence system will be overseen by Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s trip to New Delhi on October 4-5 for the annual India-Russia summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe president is leaving for India on October 4,\u201d Putin\u2019s top foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ushakov further said, \u201cThe key feature of this visit will be the signing of the agreement to deliver S-400 air defence systems. The value of the contract will be more than $5 billion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cPutin is going to India on an official visit. A package of agreements is to be signed. It is true that the theme of military-technical cooperation will be on the agenda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The US had last month warned against the deal, by saying that it would be considered as a &#8220;significant transaction&#8221; and has a potential for imposing tough US sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India is planning to purchase five S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile defence systems from Russia since 2015. The S-400 missile system can track some 300 targets and shoot down around three dozen targets simultaneously over a range of 400 kms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It has the potential to engage all types of aerial targets, including aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and ballistic and cruise missiles, within the range of 400 kms and an altitude of upto 30 km.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Russia will sign a $5 billion deal to supply Delhi with S-400 surface-to-air missile system this week. The signing of the deal for Moscow&#8217;s most advanced air defence system will be overseen by Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s trip to New Delhi on October 4-5 for the annual India-Russia summit. \u201cThe president is leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,5402,316,861,1712],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303687,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303686\/revisions\/303687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}