Russia and China signed a contract for delivery of six divisions of S-400 air defense systems, Lenta.ru reports with reference to Strategy Page. Under the agreement PRC will pay around $500 million for each division. The contract also includes personnel training, deliveries of spare parts and additional missiles. The signing of the contract is yet to be confirmed.

Each division will comprise eight launchers (each having two missiles), command vehicle (command and control center), radar station and launch stations (contains 16 missiles each). Several divisions will be deployed on the shore from Taiwan’s side, the rest ones – from the side of Japan, Vietnam and South Korea.

It was reported in November 2014 that Russia and China signed contract for delivery of six divisions of S-400 systems. The deal was valued at $3 billion. It was reported that the agreement was signed in early autumn. Later the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation dismissed the report claiming the “deal has not been approved yet”.

Russia and China have been negotiating deliveries of S-400 systems since 2012. At that time it was reported that the first S-400 systems might be delivered to China in 2017 at the earliest and only after meeting the requirements of Russian armed forces. In March 2014 the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, approved the deliveries of S-400 systems to China. In July Chief of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Sergey Ivanov, confirmed that Beijing will be the first foreign customer for S-400.