S-400 Air Defence Missile System:
Ukraine recently destroyed a Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system on the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.
S-400 Air Defence Missile System:
- The S-400 Triumf (NATO: SA-21 Growler) is a mobile, surface-to-air missile system.
- It is one of the world’s most advanced air defence systems that can simultaneously track numerous incoming objects.
- It was developed by the Almaz Central Design Bureau of Russia.
- The system entered service in April 2007, and the first S-400 was deployed in combat in August 2007.
- India signed a US$ 5.5 billion deal with Russia in October 2018 to acquire five S-400 systems.
- It is equipped with four different missiles that can engage enemy aircraft, ballistic missiles, and AWACS planes at 400 km and 250 km, medium-range at 120 km, and short-range at 40 km.
- The system can simultaneously engage 36 targets.
- The system is a large complex of radars, control systems and different types of missiles.
- The highly automated S-400 has radars that can pick up an incoming object up to 1,000 kilometres away, track several dozen incoming objects simultaneously and distribute the targets to appropriate missile systems.
