CONTENTS MiG-35 fighter: The Russian aircraft is one of the leaders in the competition, outperforming other contenders as regards operational capabilities and especially costeffectiveness
for India and Russia to jointly develop and produce first series samples of the 5th generation fighter. At present 5th generation combat aircraft are in service only with the US Air Force. This Russian-Indian joint project is going to break up the United States’ monopoly on the development of cutting edge technology aircraft. The PAK FA fighter is equipped with a totally new avionic suite performing integrated “electronic pilot” functions, and an advanced electronically scanned phased array
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ASIAN WHO’S WHO
The aircraft that will dominate the sky After successful completion of the first test flights of the Russian 5th generation T-50 PAK FA fighter (PAK FA stands for “Prospective Air Complex of Front Aviation”) international analysts renewed discussions about the Russian-Indian version of this aircraft. It will take 8-10 years at most
REGIONAL BALANCE
still Russia’s major strategic partner making headways into new areas of military technical cooperation.
INDIAN DEFENCE
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ndia is Russia’s long-standing and dependable strategic partner. Our coun-tries started military technical cooperation in November 1964 when the first agreement was signed on the delivery to India of a batch of the MiG-21 aircraft, later followed by light tanks and helicopters. For a long period of time India has been receiving nearly one third of the total amount of arms and military equipment exported from Russia. Owing to this the Indian armed forces were equipped by 70 percent with Soviet/Russian-made weapons - while the Russia’s cumulative arms exports value for the entire period of the cooperation amounted to 50 billion US dollars. Since then our countries have been constantly strengthening their strategic partnership, developing new forms and directions of mutually advantageous cooperation. Even now when India is actively diversifying its arms acquisitions, it is
WEAPONS EQUIPMENT VEHICLES TECHNOLOGY
Russia and India: setting new goals of military technical cooperation
CONCEPTS & PERSPECTIVES
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