India, Russia to Build Fifth-Generation Advanced Fighter Jet
Dated 20/1/2007
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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 Ministry international military cooperation department chief Col. Gen. Anatoly Mazurkevich told journalists.
"These issues will be in the focus of a session of the Russian- Indian intergovernmental military-technological cooperation commission led on the Russian side by Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, which is to take place in Delhi on January 24," Mazurkevich said.
"I hope agreements on the joint development of a fifth-generation fighter and a medium-size military transportation aircraft will be signed with the Indian side within the next several months," he said.
"The implementation of these projects is very important to both Russia and India," Mazurkevich said.
Taking questions from Interfax, Mazurkevich denied that a contract on Russia's selling a large number of tanks to India may be signed in the near future. "At least no such agreement will be signed during Ivanov's visit," he said.
The Russian defense minister will visit India from January 22 to 24.