Thursday, October 11, 2018

S-400: India missile defence purchase in US-Russia crosshairs

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45757556

By: Teddy Trifunovski

I thought this article was very interesting because it talked about India's new deal with Russia for defense missile systems that was an agreement between each other for about $5 Billion Dollars. This deal was specifically for a missile system called the S-400. The S-400 is one of the most sophisticated surface-to-air defence systems in the world. It has a range of 400km (248 miles) and can shoot down up to 80 targets simultaneously, aiming two missiles at each one. Also, there is a fear that the US will possibly but some sanctions on India because of this agreement that India has with Russia. This is very big news because India usually never does these type of agreements but there has always been some sort of conflict between them and China, and China has this defense system. So that is why I believe India did it as well. So they can have the same thing that China has in case of any future conflict between the two countries. 

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