India is swiftly moving towards acquiring five ad vanced S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems from Russia despite the looming threat of US sanctions with the defence ministry having Gudlavalcleared the decks for the pro- posed Rs 39,000 crore deal. The defence acquisitions council(DAC), chaired by minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday okayed "minor deviations" in the mega deal. TOIwasthe first toreport in October 2015 India's plans to acquire the S-400 missile hat can detect systems track and destroy aerial threats like jets, missiles and drones at a range of up to 400-km and altitude of 30-km. anThe DAC was held just day night once again cancel- minister Sushma Swaraj day after the US on Wednesday the inaugural "two-plus- nottwo" dialogue between fore- defence minister Sitha- counterpartso- Mike Pom- raman with their American peo and Jim Mattis-which was slated for July hington.