{"id":179745,"date":"2022-04-16T20:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=179745"},"modified":"2022-04-16T20:04:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:34:35","slug":"india-gets-s-400-training-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-gets-s-400-training-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"India gets S-400 training equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The delivery of the second squadron of Russia\u2019s S-400 Missile to India is likely to be delayed because of Russia\u2019s ongoing war with Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, India has received a tranche of simulator and training equipment for the first squadron of S-400.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is S-400?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S-400 Triumf Missile System<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a long-range, mobile &amp; surface-to-air missile system(SAM).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile has a tracking capability of nearly 600 km and is capable of destroying incoming hostile aircraft, missiles and even drones within a range of up to 400 km.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/s400-triumf-missile-system-purchase-issue-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Click Here to read more about S-400<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>India-Russia S-400 Deal<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018, India signed a USD 5 billion deal with Russia to buy five units of the S-400 surface-to-air missile defence system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December 2021, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India took delivery of the first S-400 regiment. The first unit has been deployed in Punjab and is operational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Concerns for India:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The US has been putting pressure on India not to accept delivery of the S-400 missile system from Russia. India also faces the prospect of U.S. sanctions under <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-caatsa-or-countering-americas-adversaries-through-sanctions-act\/\">CAATSA<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>India gets S-400 training equipment<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 16th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The delivery of the second squadron of Russia\u2019s S-400 Missile to India is likely to be delayed because of Russia\u2019s ongoing war with Ukraine. However, India has received a tranche of simulator and training equipment for the first squadron of S-400. What is S-400? S-400 Triumf Missile System is a long-range,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-gets-s-400-training-equipment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India gets S-400 training equipment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-179745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704805519},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}