India may start receiving its first Russian-made S-400 air defense systems in 2020, if the contract on the deliveries is signed this year, Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Dmitry Shugaev told Sputnik.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th August, 2018) India may start receiving its first Russian-made S-400 air defense systems in 2020, if the contract on the deliveries is signed this year, Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Dmitry Shugaev told Sputnik.
"As for India, if we sign the deal until the end of this year, I think, the deliveries will be possible in 2020," Shugaev said.
The intergovernmental agreement on the supply the S-400 systems was reached by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi in October 2016.
The S-400 Triumf system is a next-generation mobile air defense system, which is capable of destroying aerial targets at an extremely long range of up to 400 kilometers (almost 250 miles).
