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"The issue of residual US arms left behind in Afghanistan reflects sheer carelessness on the US part. The bloodshed on the eve of the Taliban* takeover showed US apathy towards gauging the horrible ramifications of their hasty haphazard exit," Dr. Priyanka Singh, an MP-IDSA associate fellow told Sputnik India.

"We have seen multiple cases in Pakistan, where TTP** and other terrorist groups used the American leftover weapons to target Pakistani forces and civilians," Umair Aslam, the founder of Global Defense Insight, told Sputnik India.

"Reports from J&K have pointed to seizures of sophisticated weapons from terrorists- otherwise considered unusual in the course of militancy in the former state," Singh explained.

"This exhibition is very promising for both us and Russia. We are expected to have several high-level meetings, hopefully our joint product will be promoted here. We are very much looking forward to these negotiations," Pathak said.

S-400 is a very potent air defense missile system because it has four types of in-built missiles. The first missile can destroy targets within a range of 40 km, the second inside 120 km, the third at 250 km, and the fourth in a maximum radius of 400 km, Group Captain (Retd) Uttam Kumar Devnath to Sputnik India told Sputnik India.

"Pakistan does not want to open another front with Afghanistan, given the already deteriorating relations: the current regime in Afghanistan does not believe in the legitimacy of the Durand Line; the Tribal Provinces and the North-West Frontier Provinces are becoming a part of a larger turmoil between the two countries," Dr. VC Shushant Parashar, a Research Fellow at the New Delhi-based Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), said in a conversation with Sputnik India.

"The facility, named S2, is capable of generating flight speeds between 3-10 km/s, simulating the hypersonic conditions encountered during atmospheric entry of vehicles, asteroid entry, scramjet flights, and ballistic missiles," the institute's release reads.