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China Russia will receive at least six batteries of long-range anti-aircraft systems S-400 under a contract that Rosoboronexport Russian group and the Chinese Ministry of Defense have signed in September, writes Vedomosti on Wednesday.
The transaction amount exceeds 3,000 billion, the paper said citing an executive of the national defense industry and one near the dome of the Russian military department source. Rosoboronexport spokesmen and company Almaz-Antey, designer missile systems S-400, refusing to comment on the news now.
Moscow and Beijing had several years negotiating the delivery of S-400. The newspaper Kommersant reported earlier that the transaction has the approval of President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, the head of the presidential office, Sergei Ivanov, said in July that China could become the first foreign buyer of the new antiaircraft gun.
Russian air defense system S-400
The S-400 was designed from another system of long-range anti-aircraft missiles, S-300P , which Russia supplied in recent decades to Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Cyprus, Kazakhstan and Vietnam. Egypt and Venezuela received from the Russians different systems, S-300V, whose function is to protect ground forces air strikes. The contract of the S-300 to Iran was canceled in 2010 due to international sanctions and supplying these arms to Syria was suspended because of the civil war going on since 2011.
The director of the Center for Strategic Situation, Ivan Konovalov, believes that the Chinese Army could deploy the S-400 in the south to control the airspace over Taiwan and several islands that lie in adjacent seas and are subject to territorial disputes. Although China's military industry has greatly increased its level in the last 15 years, according to the expert, in some segments has not yet been able to demonstrate their ability.
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