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
Ahead of his discussions and the Seventh Meeting of India- Russia Inter Governmental Commission on Military Technical Cooperation, the Defence Minister Shri AK Antony today expressed confidence that a..Read More
India and Russia will sign a pact on jointly developing and producing a fifth generation combat jet even as they overcame a contentious price escalation issue over the purchase of 40 additional Sukhoi..Read More
The Defence Minister Shri A K Antony leaves New Delhi tomorrow on a four day official visit to Moscow to attend the 7th India-Russia Inter Governmental Commission on Military Technical Cooperation. He..Read More
India and Russia will sign a pact to jointly develop an advanced fifth generation fighter aircraft during Defence Minister A.K.Antony’s Moscow visit next week.While negotiations on the project have ..Read More
India is likely to be evicted from its sole, albeit fledgling, overseas military facility at Ayni air base near Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe under pressure from Russia, which is concerned over N..Read More
Over 160 paratroopers from the Indian Army arrived in Russia's Pskov region Tuesday to take part in a joint anti-terrorism exercise with Russia. Codenamed Indra-2007, this will be the second in a..Read More
The Indian Armed Forces, despite heavy internal commitments, remain battle ready to take on multiple external security commitments, beyond borders, in various regions and terrains across the globe, in..Read More
JSC Ilyushin general director Viktor Livanov told Interfax that India has halted the delivery of five upgraded Ilyushin 38SD maritime patrol planes, citing technical flaws.'The Indian military is..Read More
An Indian Air Force contingent comprising 29 Air Warriors along with an IL-76 aircraft would be participating in joint Indo-Russian Indra 07 Exercise from 11 Sep 07 till 20 Sep 07 at Pskov in Russia. ..Read More
India is developing a military appetite to match its growing economic power, and defense contractors are scrambling to profit. As the country overhauls its largely Soviet-era military arsenal, it coul..Read More
Chief of Army Staff, General J J Singh, will visit Russia next month. General Singh would be in Russia from September 15 to 19, and is expected to take up defence and security issues with his Russian ..Read More
Russia hopes to sign a contract next month to sell India 40 Sukhoi fighters, the president of the Irkut warplane maker said on Friday, Interfax news agency reported."We hope to sign a contract in Sept..Read More
Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently signed the permission for the re-export of Russian engines RD-93 to Pakistan. RD-93 are installed on Chinese fighter jets JF-17 (also known as FC-1). Isla..Read More
The overhaul of a Russian-made aircraft carrier sold to India under a 2004 contract will be delayed indefinitely due to insufficient financing and poor management of the project, a Russian daily said ..Read More
The contract for building three frigates for Indian Navy will be completed on schedule, a top official of the Baltic ship-building plant Yantar in Kaliningrad said today.''There are no reaso..Read More
News wire reports indicate that the Indian Navy is keen in acquiring up to two more IL 38 maritime reconnaissance aircrafts. This was initially reported by the Press Trust of India.This acquisition is..Read More
With differences over prices delaying the delivery of upgraded Sukhoi multi-role fighters and Gorshkov aircraft carrier, India today rushed a high-level defence team to Russia with fresh proposals to ..Read More
Deep historical ties and high volume trade apart, serious challenges confront Indo-Russian Defense TiesNUCLEAR SUBMARINES, Heavy Battle Tanks, Fighter Jets and Aircraft Carriers - this is a j..Read More
Russian aircraft carrier 'Admiral Gorshkov' will be inducted into the Indian Navy later this year, naval chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said here today."We are inducting Gorshkov by the later p..Read More
The commander-in-chief of the Russian Land Forces Army, General Alexei Fedorovich Maslov, will arrive here tomorrow on a five-day visit which is aimed at enhancing the defence ties between two of the..Read More
India is set to sign a major arms deal with Russia to purchase 350 more upgraded T-90 main battle tanks equipped with French night visions in a deal worth more than USD 300 million.India to buy 350 mo..Read More
Days before he is to join the Group of Eight (G-8) gathering of the world's industrialized powers in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin again criticized US plans to install a missile defen..Read More
India is to buy around 350 T-90S main battle tanks from Russia under a deal to be inked in autumn this year, according to a top military official in Moscow."The contract for their delivery will be sig..Read More
With deliveries of frontline Sukhoi fighter planes and aircraft carrier Gorshkov in a fresh price-related logjam, a high-level Russian defence delegation is arriving here in a bid to sort out the diff..Read More
Russia has sought a review of defence contracts with India due to a continued drop in the value of the dollar and an unprecedented strong rouble, a move that could increase the price of big ticket dea..Read More
The first contract for the export of jointly developed Indo-Russian BrahMos cruise missile to a "friendly" country is in pipeline and could be inked by the end of this year"First contract for the deli..Read More
A dogfight in the Indian arms bazaar has landed up in the Supreme Court. An Austrian arms dealer has charged a Russian company with fraud saying the Russians have failed to honor a commitment to pay a..Read More
The aircraft carrier Gorshkov is scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2008. The Russian side has assured at the highest level that the ship will be delivered as per contract.The aircraft carrier is..Read More
Sri Lanka’s air force is shortly to take delivery of five advanced fighter aircraft from Russia to counter the threat posed by the LTTE’s air wing, The Nation newspaper reported Sunday. In addition t..Read More
In what could cause concern to India, Russia has reportedly permitted China to re-export its RD-93 fighter engines to Pakistan."This permission will enable the supply of 150 Chinese JF-17 fighter airc..Read More
Russia will not be able to deliver the refitted aircraft carrier Gorshokov next year as scheduled. The delivery has now been pushed to 2010 and it's going to cost $113 million extra.This cost is ..Read More
Naval ships of India and Russia on Tuesday launched their three-day joint war games in the Sea of Japan in Russia's Far East to hone skills to counter terror threats on high seas and destroy enem..Read More
Russian-Indian antiterror exercises opened in the Pyotr Veliky Bay on Tuesday. The Russian Pacific Fleet’s public relations service told ITAR-TASS that a main goal of the exercises was to drill shippi..Read More
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, jointly developed by India and Russia, was successfully tested from the Interim Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near here today.Fired from a mobile launcher at the..Read More
Russia and India will conduct joint naval counter-terrorism exercises in the Sea of Japan on April 24-26, the press service of Russia's Pacific Fleet said Tuesday.INDRA-2007 is a biennial joint e..Read More
In what has been dubbed as a "breakthrough deal," India and Russia have agreed to set up a joint venture to produce titanium dioxide, a key component for the strategic metal used in aerospace industry..Read More
Russia will shortly begin supply of 38 Smerch-M 300mm BM9A52-2 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) to India under a $450 million deal signed two years ago, according to Russian media reports. Report..Read More
Russia has signed a USD 700 million contract to replace 18 of India's Sukhoi-30 fighter jets with new versions of the same plane, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a military sou..Read More
India's weapons purchases have hit a major roadblock with its biggest defence supplier, Russia, refusing to sign the mandatory integrity pact for defence contracts.Under the present defence procu..Read More
Russia has offered India the export version of its new Project 22 350 frigate as part of a tender for the construction of seven ships. Only one ship of that project has been laid so far. That one was ..Read More
The Glonass global navigation system will be inaugurated later this year, Russia's first deputy prime minister said Wednesday. India is said to be a major partner in the Glonass System which is s..Read More
Russia and China have called for expanding trilateral cooperation with India.Triangular interaction "enhances mutually beneficial economic cooperation among the three nations, strengthens their coordi..Read More
Senior officials have indicated in newspaper reports that India is going to treble the production of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. "We plan to increase the production of the missile system by..Read More
Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG of Russia has submitted a proposal for upgrade of MiG-29 aircraft in response to a Request for Proposal. No agreement has been signed.There is no proposal for advancem..Read More
India's Russian Krasnopol inventory was proved defective during the Army test firing. The performance of the first lot of quantity 1000 rounds of projectiles procured in 1999 has deteriorated ove..Read More
India will purchase 40 Russian-made Sukhoi-30 fighter jets, an air force spokesman said Thursday. "The government has cleared the proposal to buy the Sukhoi planes and we'll be getting them short..Read More
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was test-fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near Balasore on Sunday from a mobile road based heavy vehicle.After a vertical lift-off at 12.15 pm fr..Read More
Russia's latest version of fighter aircraft -- MiG-35 -- will be unveiled at next week's air show in Bangalore, amid Moscow's keen interest to sell these planes to India.The MiG-35 figh..Read More
India and Russia are working jointly to explore possibilities of developing a more advanced weapon system than BrahMos -- probably a Hypersonic Cruise Missile, BrahMos Aerospace CEO and Managing Direc..Read More
Russia is set to unroll its new high-altitude light helicopter gunships and has offered its co-development to India as a package deal, which could also forsee cooperation in building 10-tonne-class ch..Read More
Russia is expected to host a joint military exercise with India in northwestern Pskov region in September, RIA news agency quoted paratroop commander Colonel-General Alexander Kolmakov as saying on Su..Read More
India and Russia today categorically opposed weaponisation of outer space, close on the heels of China testing an anti-satellite missile system."Our fundamental position is that outer space should be ..Read More
Russia today signed an agreement with India for construction four more nuclear reactors in Kudankulam project in Tamil Nadu.Announcing this, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a joint press conference..Read More
The Defence Cooperation between India and Russia got a further boost, when four different documents were signed here today between the two countries at the conclusion of the Sixth Meeting of the India..Read More
Dismissing as without any "basis" reports of Moscow's reservations on export of Brahmos missiles, top officials today said joint venture partners India and Russia have identified countries to who..Read More
Sources close to Defence Ministry reveal that India is likely to announce MiG 35's as the winner of the massive Indian Air Force MRCA (Multi Role Combat Aircraft) contract during President Putin&..Read More
Russia and India are planning to conduct joint land and naval counter-terrorism exercises in 2007, a Russian Defense Ministry official said Saturday.INDRA-2007 is a biennial joint exercise between the..Read More
Russia has blocked the sale of Chinese fighter planes with Russian engines to Pakistan. "We've denied China the right to supply its JF-17 fighter aircraft powered by Russian RD-93 engines to thir..Read More
Russia and India are planning to sign an agreement on cooperation in building a fifth-generation fighter and a medium-size military transportation aircraft within the next few months, Russian Defense ..Read More
The 6th Meeting of the Inter-Governmental Commission on Military Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-MTC) headed by the Defence Ministers of India and Russia will be held here on January 24, 2007.The Russian..Read More
India will manufacture the highly advanced RD33 fighter jet engines for the air force's MiG-29 fleet as a part of a deal signed with Russia, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherhjee said here ..Read More
Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov met Indian National Security Advisor Mayankote Kelath Narayanan on Thursday to discuss the state of and prospects for the development of Russia..Read More
Hindustan Aeronautics has entered into a $700-million joint venture (JV) agreement with Irkut Corporation of Russia for manufacturing 60-tonne multi-role transport aircraft (MRTA). Under this 50:50 JV..Read More
India has ordered 300 modernized T-90 main battle tanks from Russia, an Indian television channel said Monday.Under the terms of to the $950-million contract, the T-90S tanks, which are equipped with ..Read More
The recent attack on BrahMos Aerospace, an Indo-Russian cruise missile joint venture by Russian defence firms signals a major shift in Moscow's defence cooperation policy with New Delhi that coul..Read More
Several Russian missile makers have accused India of discrediting their weapon systems and spoiling their chances in the global market through the aggressive marketing of the BrahMos cruise missile de..Read More
According to newspaper reports, India and Russia have signed a contract for the upgradation of older versions of MiG-29 fighters that have served in the Indian Air Force for almost two decades.It is s..Read More
Russia's armed forces successfully test-launched an interceptor missile on Tuesday, news reports said.The Space Forces launched the missile from the Sary-Shagan test-range in Kazakhstan, the forc..Read More
Russia is negotiating with India, US and some other countries on the joint use of its national global navigational satellite system GLONASS, a top space official said Tuesday.GLONASS, the Russian vers..Read More
India and Russia intend to make 1,000 BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles over the next 10 years through their joint venture company, with nearly 50 per cent of them expected to be sold in third countr..Read More
The Indian Navy will match skills with two of the world's biggest navies in quick succession next year. A flotilla will sail for the Pacific Ocean to exercise with U.S. forces towards the middle ..Read More
The Indian Air Force (IAF) will buy 80 medium lift multi-role Mi-17 1V helicopters from Russia, Indo-Asian News Service reported Sunday.The news agency quoted Chief of Air Staff Marshal (ACM), S P Tya..Read More
Russia, an influential member of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), has said it is keen to expand civilian nuclear cooperation with India, but underlined that issues regarding the Nuclear No..Read More
Newspaper reports indicate that the Indian Army is to acquire nearly 1000 locally produced T90S Bhishma MBT's by the year 2020, in addition to the 310 T90 MBT's procured from Russia.The Time..Read More
India is all set to acquire the technology to develope highly advanced RD-33 fighter jet engines for the Indian Air Force's MiG-29 fleet. This deal with Russia cost USD 250 million.Russia's..Read More
A state-of-the-art gunboat was handed over to the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg Friday.It was built at St. Petersburg's Almaz shipyard, the Astrakhan will be the first in the navy warship to hav..Read More
Army General Vladimir Mikhailov, commander of the Russian Air Force, recently said that the latter would receive the first batch of Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers by late 2006.Officials at the ..Read More
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has scrapped plans for full indigenisation of the warplane at its facilities in India, media reports said Friday.This will not only save costs but also speed up del..Read More