India-Russia S-400 Deal | US Warns With CAATSA
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As we all know that India Signed 5.43 billion agreement with Russia last year on Oct 2018 to purchase five S-400 missile defence systems. S-400 is an anti-aircraft weapon system developed in the 1990s by Russia. It is described as one of the best air-defence systems currently made and most advanced air defence systems available.
The Trump administration has warned that India's such decision to buy the long-range S-400 missile defense system from Russia will have serious implications on defence ties. Also, due to this agreement, recently US has expressed its displeasure and threatened Indian through CAATSA. US should also understand that India took the decision to buy S-400 from Russia as US was not willing to share such hardware with it.
CAATSA which stands for Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act is a United States federal law that imposed sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia. It was signed by US President Donald Trump on 02 August 2017 with an aim to counter the aggressions by Russia, Iran and North Korea. The US President has delegated his powers through CAATSA to ban 39 Russian entities, dealings with which could make third parties liable to sanctions. Its major objective is to discourage exports of Russian defence equipment. This law was imposed because the US government believes that Russia has some military involvement in Syria and Ukraine disputes.
Now, since India is dealing with Russia on wide variety of weapons and join-ventures for future defence equipments, US has expressed this displeasure. The experts of US region said that the S-400 missile deal can attract sanctions under the CAATSA law that restricts defence purchases from Russia, Iran and North Korea.
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