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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.

The IAF chief also showed that the Shahbaz Jacobabad airfield was one of the major airfields that were attacked.

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.

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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.

India's decision to buy S-400 missile system will further destabilise region: Pakistan

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.