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17/07/22 08:14 AM IST

Waiver to India over S-400 missile deal with Russia

In News 
  • The US House of Representatives has passed by voice vote a legislative amendment that approves waiver to India against the punitive CAATSA sanctions for its purchase of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia to help deter aggressors like China.
About CAATSA 
  • CAATSA authorises the US administration to impose sanctions on countries that purchase major defence hardware from Russia.
  • Countering America’s Adversaries through Sanctions Act (CAATSA)‘s core objective is to counter Iran, Russia and North Korea through punitive measures.
  • It was passed in 2017 in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea (2014) and its alleged meddling in the 2016 US presidential elections.
  • Prohibition on loans, prohibition of Export-Import bank assistance, prohibition on procurement of goods or services, denial of visas to persons.
About S-400 
  • The S-400 Triumf is a mobile, surface-to-air missile system developed in the 1990s.
  • It is the most dangerous operationally deployed modern long-range SAM (MLR SAM) in the world, considered much ahead of the US-developed Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD).
  • India signed a USD 5 billion deal with Russia (in 2018) to buy five units of the S-400 air defence missile systems.
Source- Indian Express 

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