The air defence system will most likely be deployed on India’s border with Pakistan. We, in Russia, know very little about what is called a glacier war on the highest battleground on earth there, with both armies frequently engaging in artillery duels involving mortar shells and gunfire.

However, as stopping a Pakistani shell with a Russian missile is clearly a game that is not worth the candle, India must have bought the S-400 to benefit from its highly sophisticated radar as an early warning system. And the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s game is “forewarned is forearmed”.