As the race in the Indian Air Force's $10-billion tender for 126 combat jets reached the crucial stage of flight trials, Russia, on top of a full technology transfer, is offering India help in bu..Read More
Russia will complete the upgradation of Indian Air Force's 60 MiG-29 fighters by 2013 which will extend their service life by another 15 years. "The implementation of the contract signed between ..Read More
Russia will fulfill its obligations on schedule to supply three Project 11356 frigates to India by 2012, a shipbuilding industry official said on Friday to RIA Novosti.Russia is building three Project..Read More
Russia will participate in an open tender for the supply of next-generation diesel-electric submarines to the Indian Navy, according to a senior official of the Russian state arms export agency. "We w..Read More
Russia could sell up to 40 fourth-generation diesel-electric submarines to foreign customers by 2015, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday according to RIA Novosti."Russia's ..Read More
Russia has bought 12 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Israel in a recent deal worth $53 million, a Russian government official said on Monday to the national news agency."The contract envisions th..Read More
Russia's Akula class nuclear-powered attack submarine "Nerpa" will be inducted by the Russian Navy after pre-delivery trials are completed this summer, prior to its formal lease to India later th..Read More
India has paid an additional $102 million to Russia to speed up Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier refit project, even as officials from both sides are working overtime to break the deadlock over Mosco..Read More
In tune with its ambitions of being a blue water force, four warships of the Navy will for the first time sail to the Atlantic, where they would hold war games with the French, British, Russian and Ge..Read More
Russia has secured an order from Vietnam for 12 Su-30MK2 fighter jets worth more than 500 million dollars (368 million euros), the Vedomosti newspaper said Thursday, citing top aviation industry offic..Read More
According to RIA Novosti, the Israeli Air Force is currently using Soviet-designed MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters for pilot training."We have studied them and are using them to practice dog fights. It is a g..Read More
The United States has bought two Su-27 Flanker fighter jets to help train U.S. pilots to cope with the growing number of Russian 4th-generation aircraft sold around the globe, a U.S. online magazine s..Read More
India is all set to get its first new generation Akula-II class nuclear attack submarine by the year end, which would bolster the Navy's undersea capability manifold. Russian Prime Minister Vladi..Read More
India is moving ahead with its plans to equip its frontline air superiority fighter, the Sukhoi-30MKI with the air launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. According to agency report..Read More
India is sending its Defence Secretary Vijay Singh to Russia on Sunday to break a deadlock over Moscow's hiked price of USD 2.9 billion for the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier. During the three..Read More
Russia's Admiral Panteleyev missile destroyer has detained a boat carrying 29 suspected pirates off the Somali coast, RIA Novosti quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying. A new task force f..Read More
A prototype of the advanced Su-35 Flanker multi-role fighter plane burst into flames during take-off procedures at a testing ground in Russia's Far East, a spokesman for the Komsomolsk-on-Amur ai..Read More
Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg will build six Kilo class diesel-electric submarines for delivery to Vietnam, the Russian business daily Kommersant said on Monday.The paper quoted company gener..Read More
The first six Mi-28N Night Hunter attack helicopters have been delivered to Russia's North Caucasus military district, a military source yesterday to the national news agency."The first six Mi-2..Read More
The Su-35 multi-role super-maneuverable fighter made its 100th flight during which they conducted final tests of the flight control system.In February 2008 “Sukhoi Company” started Su-35 flight tests...Read More
Many of the Russian MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter planes grounded after last December's crash have shown signs of metal corrosion, a military official said on Friday.Since the MiG-29 crash in East Siber..Read More
Indian Air Force will initially get the same PAK FA fifth-generation fighter as their Russian colleagues. Sukhoi general director Mikhail Pogosyan said Thursday that he would seek to unify the Russian..Read More
Press Trust of India has reported that Russia is seeking an additional USD 700 million for the refitting, repairs and delivery of INS Vikramaditya (Admiral Gorshkov) aircraft carrier.Quoting Defense M..Read More
Russian state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport has a foreign orders portfolio of $20 billion, company official Nikolai Dimidyuk said on Monday.Russia exports weapons to over 80 countries. Amon..Read More
Russia pins special hopes on the Aero India-2009 show opening in Bangalore. Aside from being a good selling pitch for Russian producers, such airspace exhibitions, and particularly the present show in..Read More
Irkut Corporation has received an award for being the Indian company offering the best military-technical cooperation with foreign countries in combat aviation. The award was presented at the AERO IND..Read More
Press Trust of India reports that India and Russia have concluded a major military, counter piracy naval exercise off the Somali coast in the Arabian Sea. Indian and Russian navies hold biennial naval..Read More
Russia signed more than $700 million in deals on Wednesday to supply India's nuclear reactors with fuel pellets, Russia's state-owned nuclear company said in a statement.Major nuclear powers..Read More
Russia's aircraft maker Sukhoi has opened a representative office in New Delhi, the company's press service said in a statement today. Sukhoi, which is part of Russia's United Aircraft ..Read More
Russia and India are negotiating a new contract on the delivery of additional Project 11356 frigates for the Indian navy, the head of Russia's arms exporter said on Wednesday. The talks are being..Read More
Russia will use an upcoming air show in India to showcase its MiG-35 advanced jet fighter, a contender to win an Indian fighter tender, an official from Russia's state arms exporter said on Monda..Read More
In an interview to Itar Tass, the deputy director Viktor Komardin of Russian state owned defence company Rosoboronexport confirmed that Mi-171 deliveries will begin from year end 2009 onwards.Here are..Read More
Russia's Pyotr Veliky missile cruiser has left the port of Mormugao in the Indian state of Goa and headed for African waters.The Pyotr Veliky arrived in Mormugao on an unofficial visit January 29..Read More
The two nations have revealed on Tuesday that they will make naval drills off Somalia, where by pirates have been operating for the past 3 years.The Russian and Indian navies have started joint naval ..Read More
Indian team consisting of four officials has left for Russia to conclude the INS Vikramaditya price negotiations newspapers reported on Monday. The team will work on fixing a final price for the aircr..Read More
Russia's fifth-generation fighter have to start testing phase in 2009, deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti today. Further progress on the aircraft should termi..Read More
Press Trust of India reports that Russia has postponed the delivery of Akula-II class Nerpa nuclear submarines to India. Listed below are the important points mentioned in the report:-- Nerpa submarin..Read More
Moscow continues to pursue a Sukhoi-based fifth-generation fighter. After five years of effort, Russia finally found an international partner for the development project. In 2007 India entered an agre..Read More
The test-firing of supersonic cruise missile BrahMos will be held on Tuesday January 20th 2009 near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. It was earlier postponed due to heavy fog and rough weather conditions. This i..Read More
The state will earmark 4 trillion rubles ($125 billion) for arms procurements by 2011, including 1 trillion rubles ($31 billion) in 2009, the Russian prime minister said on Thursday.Vladimir Putin sai..Read More
India and Russia are set to deepen their military ties with wargames planed in the Arabian Sea that will include nuclear-powered warships later this month, a top defence official said on Sunday. Six R..Read More
Two Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi-30MKI combat jets have been sent to Russia for a retrofit that would enable them launch the aerial version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile that India and Rus..Read More
India is upgrading its MiG-27 fighters to sharpen their strike capabilities, officials said on Wednesday, even as experts say the recent Mumbai attacks have exposed the country's need to modernis..Read More
In an effort to finalise the issues concerning Admiral Gorshkov, now called "INS Vikramaditya," New Delhi will shortly send a team of price negotiators to Moscow.The aircraft carrier's purchase r..Read More
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) inked a pact to jointly develop and produce a fifth generation fighter aircraft, a top HAL official said on Tuesday. "..Read More
Russia could lease several Shchuka-B class nuclear attack submarines to India in coming years, a top official here said though the delivery of the first of the two nuke subs reportedly contracted by I..Read More
A Russian destroyer will be sent to the Horn of Africa in December to take over from a missile frigate currently protecting civilian ships from Somali pirate attacks in the region, a Navy official sai..Read More
In a boost to the sagging defence relationship between India and Russia, the two nations today signed a contract for supply of 80 MI-17V-5 medium lift helicopters for the Indian Air Force (IAF).Valued..Read More
India and Russia would sign an agreement to build four reactors at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, the Russian nuclear power chief said Tuesday. The bilateral agreement, initialled in February 200..Read More
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is scheduled to visit New Delhi this week, today spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the two agreed to intensify bilateral co-operation in anti-terror eff..Read More
An ex-Soviet officer who claims to have shot down U.S. Senator John McCain's plane over Vietnam in 1967 has said he is happy the ex-navy pilot lost his bid for the White House, a Russian paper sa..Read More
The Vladikavkaz diesel-electric submarine will return to service with Russia's Northern Fleet in 2011 after an extensive overhaul at the Zvezdochka shipyard in north Russia, the company said on T..Read More
Russia today said the delivery of Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to the Indian Navy would be delayed till 2012 as the vessel could be refitted only sometime in 2010. It also said that since last ye..Read More
India's finance ministry has for the second time rejected a proposal from the nation's defence ministry to approve an additional $1.2 billion in funds to complete a retrofit project to the d..Read More
Batches of Indian naval personnel are to shortly leave for the Russia's far eastern port of Vladivostok to train on board the Chakra, (formerly the Nerpa) a Russian Akula-2 nuclear powered attack..Read More
Russia will start deliveries of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier fighters to India in the spring of 2009. Russia and India signed a contract on January 20, 2004, stipulating the delivery of 12 single-seater ..Read More
Russia and India will jointly develop a new BrahMos-2 hypersonic cruise missile, the head of the BrahMos company said on Monday."Today, at a meeting of the Russian-Indian intergovernmental commission ..Read More
The Indian Air Force is likely to add MI-17 V5 medium lift helicopters in its fleet as negotiations to procure them from Russia are in final stages, a senior IAF official said on Thursday. "Our negoti..Read More
The Russian Navy on Thursday successfully tested a Bulava sea-launched ballistic missile, which hit targets on testing grounds in Kamchatka in Russia's Far East, a spokesman for the Defense Minis..Read More
The ongoing price negotiations for the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier will get a fillip this month-end when Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov visits India to attend the 8th round of an int..Read More
The Russian Federation has finally agreed to transfer key technology for the advanced T-90 tanks enabling Indian armament factories to now go ahead with production of these weapon platforms indigenous..Read More
India could consider plans to produce a new-generation tank jointly with Russia, the managing director of the BrahMos Aerospace joint venture said on Tuesday.Sivathanu Pillai said that while the new t..Read More
The 8th meeting of the Indo-Russian Working Group on Shipbuilding, Aviation and Land Systems was held on 18-19 August, 2008 in New Delhi within the framework of the Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Com..Read More
The fifth generation Indo-Russian fighter aircraft will be ready for induction by 2017, says Air Chief Marshal Fali H Major, while pointing out that the Indian Air Force's (IAF) squadron strength..Read More
The deadly conflict in Georgia seems to be spreading outside the South Ossetia region and into Abkhazia, a senior United Nations peacekeeping official told the Security Council today, warning that the..Read More
The Indian Air Force said on Thursday that India will soon sign a contract with Russia to receive 80 Mi-17 Hip-H multirole helicopters. Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major said preparations for signing ..Read More
Russia's peacekeeping command said on Saturday the country's troops have driven Georgian forces from the capital of the separatist republic of South Ossetia. "Tskhinvali has been fully libe..Read More
India is on the verge of acquiring a strategic capability to strike land targets thousands of miles from its shores by inducting the Russian underwater launched Club-S subsonic cruise missiles. The mi..Read More
Russian strategic bombers may soon be deployed at airbases in Cuba, Venezuela and Algeria as a response to the U.S. missile shield in Europe and NATO's expansion, Russian daily Izvestia said on T..Read More
The INS Sindhuvijay diesel-electric submarine will set sail for India on August 5 to rejoin the Indian navy after an extensive overhaul at a shipyard in northern Russia, the company said on Tuesday.Th..Read More
Russia's principal Uralvagonzavod main battle tank (MBT) production facility in Nizhny Tagil has offered to co-operate with India on the development and production of a future main battle tank (F..Read More
A delegation of Russian Ground Forces officers will learn about training troops for mountain warfare during a two-week trip to India that started on Monday, a spokesman for the Russian military said.D..Read More
Russia is ready to export the new state-of-the-art Su-35 Flanker multirole air superiority/strike fighter to India, Malaysia and Algeria, Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on ..Read More
Russia and India have agreed to exchange knowledge in the training of mountain troops as part of an extensive military cooperation program, an aide to Russia's Ground Forces commander said on Tu..Read More
Russia will drive a hard bargain in renegotiating the price of an aircraft carrier the Indian Navy has purchased and for which Moscow is seeking $1.2 billion over and above the $1.5 billion that had ..Read More
The Russian-Indian BrahMos Aerospace joint venture has finished the development of the airborne version of an advanced supersonic missile, the company's managing director has said.
Establish..Read More
The Indian Navy has asked Boeing for the use of its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet supersonic carrier-based fighter aircraft on board a Russian-made carrier, Russian daily Izvestia said on Thursday.A Boeing s..Read More
Two weeks after photographs of China's nuclear submarines set alarm bells ringing for the Indian authorities, a commercial satellite has revealed a launching site for over 50 nuclear ballistic mi..Read More
India's largest ever global military tender to acquire 126 fighters for an estimated $10 billion took off on Monday with six aviation companies submitting their technical bids to the Defence Mini..Read More
India's state-owned military-plane maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) said that a joint venture to develop a multi-role transport aircraft is near completion. HAL is partnering with Russia�..Read More
The Irkut Corporation based in Irkutsk in eastern Siberia, has decided to stop financing the Indo-Russian joint production of Multirole Transport Aircraft (MTA).(Sources: UNI, Wikipedia, FlightGlobal)..Read More
Russia will begin delivery in May of fighter jets to India for a long-delayed aircraft carrier it is refitting for sale to New Delhi, India's navy chief was quoted by Russian news agencies as say..Read More
Contracts and supplementary agreements comprising of repair and re-equipping, logistics supports, shore infrastructure, training of ships' crew, repair and technical documents etc. were signed wi..Read More
India signed a $960 million contract with Russia to upgrade the Mig-29 fighter jets inducted into the Indian Air Force in the mid-1980s, the Times of India reported, citing an unidentified defense mi..Read More
India has agreed to pay Russia a higher price for a delayed aircraft carrier, but analysts said problems with the deal underlined growing unease between one of the world's biggest arms buyers and..Read More
Russia's ambassador to India said Tuesday that the Defexpo 2008 exhibition is a good opportunity for Russia to broaden its military and technical cooperation with India and Asia Pacific countries..Read More
India is planning to spend $100 billion over the next decade on new equipment and parts for its growing military. Much of it will be purchased overseas to supplement India's own modest defense i..Read More
Russia will use the Defexpo India 2008 to be held from February 16 to19 to showcase many of its air defence and radar intelligence systems."Specialists and visitors will see the S-300PMU2 Favorit mobi..Read More
India has embarked on project BrahMos-2, which will see the design and development of hypersonic missiles, according to Dr A. Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BrahMos Aerospace. The ..Read More
A month after scrapping a 600-million-dollar deal to buy nearly 200 helicopters, India is now seeking bidders for an even bigger contract worth almost one billion dollars, officials said on Tuesday. N..Read More
On the heels of the deadlock over the pricing of Russian aircraft carrier Gorshkov, India has refused to take delivery of the latest submarine INS Sindhuvijay from Russia, saying its cruise missile ha..Read More
The United States is gearing up to battle Russia and Europe for sales of billions of dollars in jet fighters, cargo aircraft and other arms to India. U.S. officials regard sales to India, with a poten..Read More
Reports appearing in a section of the Russian media would suggest that state-run arms export agency Rosoboronexport may be negotiating with Indian authorities for the construction of a fresh lot of th..Read More
Russia's state-run Rosoboronexport is in talks with India over the delivery of Mi-17 multirole military helicopters, RIA Novosti reports."We believe that Rosoboronexport will soon sign a contract..Read More
The overall progress of repair and re-equipping of the ship, ex-Admiral Gorshkov, in Russia is slow. The Russian side has submitted a revised Master Schedule indicating a delay in the project. The Rus..Read More
India and Russia Monday inked a $600 million deal to jointly develop and produce a multi-role transport aircraft (MRTA) for their air forces and for sale to third countries. The agreement was among fo..Read More
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Moscow will envisage upgrading the predominant buyer-seller relationship between India and Russia in the defence sector to a new level of joint partnershi..Read More
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that India's "multifaceted bilateral cooperation" with Russia is based on long-term interests, and the strategic partnership between New Delhi and Moscow ..Read More
Ahead of Prime Ministers upcoming visit to Moscow from November 10th, India and Russia are widely expected to sign on the Indian Navy Akula Submarine Lease Deal.Indian Navy is all set to acquire the n..Read More
India and Russia today signed a landmark Intergovernmental Agreement for the joint development and joint production of the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA), marking the beginning of cooperatio..Read More
