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Manu Pubby was Deputy Editor at ThePrint.
He wrote on national security, defence affairs, terrorism and overall strategic environment. He is also a known investigative journalist.
Manu has reported extensively on Jammu & Kashmir and the North-East. He has also reported on terrorism from Afghanistan, covered the 2011 revolution in Egypt and the 2012 transfer of power in Maldives.
He is twice recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, and has also been awarded the KC Kulish International Award for Investigative Journalism and the Press Council of India National Award for Investigative Journalism.
Manu studied Journalism at Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.
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Nice to know that China placed order, already delivered and India still negotiating with price. Also don’t know if indian top brass has seen the systems capabilities first hand with trial demonstration or just believing Soviet propaganda on capabilities.
The usage of cruise missiles against systems like S-400 can also render it useless.
For that you need better missile which could be placed from launcher with absolute stealth & advance tech which our western adversary have not.. all though it could be evaded by stealth crafts which they don’t have & even in gifts if they got would not have capability to remain service ready ( considering US raptors which are at present at pinnacle of this & even in more number than their humble jf 17 but still have 49 % service availability )
@Saleem Hatoum, For cruise missile to hit the target it must first find the target, considering that the S400 is mobile and will no doubt be camouflaged, good luck in finding that!