Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Russian arms sales to China and India playing the game of checks and balances

 India, Russia's new fighter, turned out all excited
Moscow time at 4:25 on January 29, 2010, the Russian Far East, Komsomolsk Amur River local time 11:25, the Russian fifth generation fighter T-50 vacated the sky turned out. After 47 minutes of flight, the successful completion of two retractable landing gear, and other scheduled tasks, T-50 aircraft factory in Gagarin's landing runway light mm Start bulk purchases. , Russia's fifth-generation fighter in the successful maiden flight of the news was released to the former Indian Air Force Commander Major told reporters, level of .2020 years ago, this fifth-generation fighter to enter the Indian military service, provide access to the Indian Air Force Russian Air Force, the fifth-generation fighter to protect the leading position in future technologies. production of new aircraft, the Russian Air Force will provide access to a single drive the fifth-generation fighter, while India will provide access to the fifth generation of two-seat fighter.
and to the day after, the Russian defense export company in January, general manager of Isaikin 28 disclosed, Russia and India about the Russia is working with India to sell 29 MiG aircraft carrier to negotiate the contract details. expected, the Indian Navy will soon be with Russia to purchase 29 MiG jet fighters signed -29 1.2 billion in total value of arms sales agreements , these fighters will be deployed in the Indian aircraft carrier purchased from Russia, because Russia agreed to provide about 70% of the aircraft carrier-based weapons.
In fact, this series of military procurement contracts or joint research and development agreement is only Russian-Indian military cooperation, a microcosm of the ongoing negotiations, Russia and India alone arms purchase agreements to the total value of up to 150 billion U.S. dollars. And so far, India's imports from Russia billions of dollars worth of aviation equipment, ground equipment, air defense system, various types of missiles, large surface ships and submarines and other weapons and equipment. as a rising regional power, India has the potential to become Russia's arms market. In recent years, India's imports of Russian weapons accounted for 71% of the total weapons, while India Russian-made weapons has become the largest importer of Russian arms sales to India every year in Russia in the overall volume of foreign sales accounting for more than 20%.
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has stressed that the Russian Indian Technical cooperation has provides many new weapons and new military technology, weapons and military technology, many of which are unique in the world. In the transfer of know-how to India some of the results of the high-end technology, Russia is the only such military cooperation with India's country. Cooperation is not ; aircraft carrier deal, for example, the shipyard in northern Russia, a serious mistake to estimate renovation costs unilaterally increase the price substantially to 20 billion U.S. dollars, lead to strong resentment in India, as a matter of a dispute between the two countries to fight over 5 years. India then turned to the West to seek military procurement, Russian media commented on this, U.S. and other competitors. in order to keep the traditional markets, Russia began to consciously adjust sales strategies for India.
2009 年 12 month, Russian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Russia by the machine and India signed the Outline of Russian-Indian military-technical cooperation a series of agreements will help India in the next 10 years the system by providing a variety of defense equipment to improve the combat capability of the Indian army, and to promote the development of India's defense industry.
According to these documents, Russia and India for joint development of helicopters, infantry tanks and 5th generation fighter, and will also strengthen the existing fleet of Russian-made aircraft in the Indian Army, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles and a series of weapons and equipment modernization cooperation. In addition, Russia and India but also in the joint development and production ; the complex cooperation.
1 28, Rosoboronexport general manager Anatoly. Yise Kim told reporters that Russian arms exports in 2009 reached 7.4 billion U.S. dollars. He said the Russian arms export in 2009 amount compared to 2008 increased by 10%. Air Force weapons and military equipment is the main Russian export fire, about 50% of the export items. He said that in the past 9 years, the Russian defense export company showing a steady growth in exports of weapons year by year. He said: Yi Se Kim told reporters at a news conference confirmed that the scale of Russian military-technical cooperation is declining. He declined to explain this phenomenon, said military-technical cooperation between Russia and China there are objective reasons for shrinking the size and scale of cooperation will continue to decrease. He said: account for the share from 20% to 18%, the future will be reduced to 15%. He believes that this is an objective trend of development. He pointed out that China today is no longer interested in buying ready-made weapons, China from Russia and other countries to buy a small amount of ready-made weapons. But the Chinese to buy weapons from Russia than the number of purchases from other countries.
analysts pointed out that Russia and India have maintained for many years the two countries to arms sales as the core of the close military cooperation, and in this close military cooperation as a solid strategic partnership between the two countries ties. In fact, Russia and India are the same in the two current national rise of the win-win situation. Asia-Pacific strategy in India to achieve its important between the two countries can enhance the traditional.

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