USA hit the nose: Russian “Triumph” in India
The Indian military will go to Russia for training in the operation of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant writes, citing the Russian Ambassador to India Nikolai Kudashev.
“A meeting with Indian military specialists at the Russian embassy in Delhi on the eve of their trip to the Russian Federation confirmed: the implementation of the contract for the supply of five S-400 regimental sets to Delhi worth $5,43 billion, signed during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to India in October 2018 year, is entering a decisive phase,” the publication writes.
At the same time, the Russian ambassador said that the trip of a group of Indian military personnel (about 100 people) to Russia “means that India did not succumb to pressure from third countries.”
“Russian Triumph missiles will revolutionize India’s air defense system and will be deployed in the western, northern and eastern regions of India, taking into account threats from both China and Pakistan,” the Indian Ministry of Defense told The Times of India.
According to the newspaper’s interlocutors, Delhi has already paid Moscow “a significant advance on the contract, the remaining payments will be made after the creation of a mechanism that will allow circumvention of the US sanctions regime for the purchase of the S-400.”
In turn, Vasily Kashin, deputy director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, says that India views itself as an emerging superpower that highly values the independence of its foreign policy, and therefore cannot agree with the right of the United States to determine with whom it can wage war. technical cooperation.
“The loss of military-technical cooperation with Russia, the only major arms manufacturer and exporter independent of the United States and China, would put India in an extremely dangerous position, in fact, completely dependent on the United States in ensuring national security. The experience of recent years shows that the emergence of such dependence is immediately followed by the United States putting forward various demands of an economic and political nature, often in the form of direct blackmail. For example, the requirement to refuse technical service and the supply of spare parts for previously sold weapons,” Kashin said.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, S-400 acquired by Türkiye.
At the same time, the Turks were satisfied with the Russian system and ignored US threats.
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