Russia Equipped India With Arms Value $13 Billion In Previous 5 Years: Report

Asian prospects are notably focused on Russia’s S-400 Triumf missile defence techniques.

Russia provided India with round $13 billion of arms through the previous 5 years, and New Delhi has orders positioned with Moscow for weapons and navy tools exceeding $10 billion, Russian state information businesses reported late on Sunday.

India is the world’s largest purchaser of Russian arms, accounting for round 20% of Moscow’s present order e book, and New Delhi has not explicitly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has referred to as for dialogue and diplomacy to resolve the battle, now in its twelfth month.

Scores of Western nations imposed sanctions on Russia, together with on arms, in response to the invasion, which Moscow calls a “particular navy operation”.

India, China and a few Southeast Asian nations have maintained their curiosity in shopping for Russian arms, in response to Dmitry Shugayev, the top of Russia’s Federal Service for Navy-Technical Cooperation, the businesses reported.

“Regardless of the unprecedented strain on India from Western nations led by the USA in reference to Russia’s particular operation in Ukraine, it continues to be one in every of Russia’s principal companions within the subject of military-technical cooperation,” Interfax company quoted Shugayev as saying.

Annual arms exports had been about $14-15 billion, and the order e book has remained regular at round $50 billion, Interfax reported.

Asian prospects are notably focused on Russia’s S-400 Triumf missile defence techniques, short-range surface-to-air missiles techniques such because the Osa, Pechora or Strela, in addition to Su-30 warplanes, MiG-29 helicopters and drones, Shugayev stated.

Russia’s TASS state information company reported that Russia will current about 200 samples of weapons and navy tools on the 14th worldwide aerospace exhibition Aero India 2023, which opens on Monday in Bengaluru.

India is scouting for billions of {dollars} price of navy planes, finishing jetliner offers to fulfill civilian demand and urgent world plane producers to supply extra domestically on the present this week.

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