All you need to know about the S-400 missiles India is buying from Russia

[rahul1117kumar]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday signed an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the shipment of Russia’s most advanced anti-aircraft defence system, the S-400 Triumf, to India.

In December last year, India had approved the purchase of five S-400s.

Here’s what you should know about this missile system and how India will benefit from it.

1. The Russian S-400 missile system is the most modern, air defence system in the Russian arsenal

2. The S400 Triumf is designed to knock down flying targets including those equipped with stealth technologies, at a distance of about 400 kilometre

3. Compared with its predecessor, the S-300, the new S-400 has a 2.5 times faster firing rate

4. The S-400 has the capacity to fire three types of missiles

5. Just one system comprising up to 8 divisions (battalions) can control up to 72 launchers. It can also handle a maximum of 384 missiles

6. It is also capable of taking out ballistic missiles and hyper-sonic targets

7. It is developed by Russia’s Almaz Central Design Bureau in the 1990s

All you need to know about the S-400 missiles India is buying from Russia - Rediff.com India News

 

[Sarkar]

We can reach Mars but cannot build a long range air defense system, Govt should fire all DRDO officials and transfer isro officials to DRDO.

 

[abhinaba]

We can reach Mars but cannot build a long range air defense system, Govt should fire all DRDO officials and transfer isro officials to DRDO.

An Air defence missile system is comprised of some sophisticated systems like radar, targets illuminators, missiles,command & control centre etc. etc. It is true DRDO failed to master on those technologies but it is not the failure of DRDO only; DRDO also takes helps from IITs,IISC. So, is it a failure in Indian Education system ?



India's top 10 Universities,IITs,IISC were engaged in development of Akash radar system but they failed. Even in Tejas MMR project they failed. Radar is one of the sophisticated technology & we have yet to master on it. DRDO has a capability to develop long range SAMs but without long range radar,target illuminators you can't validate them.













In civilian space project we get helps from Foreign organisations but in defence project we can't get them. For instance in Mars mission we get access of Deep Space Networks of NASA, without it perhaps we will never be able to reach Mars with so low budget.

 

[Sarkar]

We are paying the price for giving priority to quota system in education as well as job instead of merit. [emoji35]