India to buy seven squadrons of Akash air defense system

The Indian Ministry of Defense will soon sign off the purchase of seven Akash air defense system for the Indian Air Force.

By Frontier India Defense and Strategic News Service [CC BY-SA 2.5 in], via Wikimedia Commons

The purchase is expected to cost $784 million for fourteen firing units.

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