Russia hopes to deliver the final two S-400 systems by the next year

Western sanctions and the situation in Ukraine impacted the delivery of S-400 air defence systems.Following a delay in programme implementation, Russia will deliver the two remaining S-400 air defence systems under a $5.4 billion deal signed by India by 2025, according to persons familiar with the situation.As per the conditions of the agreement signed by Russia and India in October 2018, all five S-400 system deliveries were to be finished in five years. The varying payments for the military systems were impacted by the Western sanctions and the situation in Ukraine, though, which hindered the deliveries.

Without elaborating, the sources stated that the two surviving S-400 systems should reach India by the end of the following year.One of the individuals mentioned above, who wished to remain anonymous, stated, “There is a new time frame for deliveries of the remaining S-400 systems now and things are back on track again.”Without elaborating, the sources stated that the two surviving S-400 systems should reach India by the end of the following year.

Despite the US’s warning that the contract would result in sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), India had moved forward with the S-400 sale. Due in large part to the developing security and strategic convergence between New Delhi and Washington, the US has not taken equivalent action against India, whereas Turkiye was subject to secondary sanctions for purchasing the S-400 under the same law.

India has received three S-400 systems from the Russian side thus far. According to the people, delivery of the first system started in December 2021, and this battery was installed to cover a portion of the northern sector border with China and the border with Pakistan.Russia’s most recent medium- and long-range surface-to-air missile defence system, the S-400, entered service in 2007. It can be deployed against ground facilities and is intended to destroy hypersonic weaponry, tactical and strategic aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, and hypersonic weapons. Targets can be engaged by the S-400 up to 400 km away and up to 30 km in the air.