S-400’s export drive gains momentum
Russia’s Almaz-Antey S-400 Triumf (SA-21 Growler) long-range SAM system is proving a big hit on the international market and currently dominates the country’s defence exports.
Turkey and India are set to get their first systems in 2019 and 2020 respectively, expected to be followed soon by other countries that expressed a strong interest in the system such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The Indian deal, inked in early October, is known to be the biggest one. The S-400 sale was agreed in principle in October 2016 between Russia and India but then took two years of negotiations in order
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