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India May Ink Nuke Sub Deal, Hold back on S-400 Missiles, FGFA During Modi's Russia Visit
India may sign an agreement or lease a second nuclear submarine 'Nerpa' during Prime Minister Modi's visit to Moscow next month.
However, it may hold back on buying the S-400 anti-missile system and the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA). These were some of the topics that came up for discussion at the India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission for Military-Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-MTC) which concluded in Moscow earlier this week.
Even though the India ministry of defence did not divulge any detail about the IRIGC-MTC it is believed that India held off on a plan to to buy the S-400 Triumf ballistic missile defence (BMD) system due to its high cost.
Retired Air Marshal PK Barbora told Defenseworld.net that an Indian delegation was given a demonstration of the S-400 back in the in the early-2000s, when he was air attaché at the Indian embassy in Moscow. At that time too, the Russians wanted to sell the system to India. They had hinted that to secure New Delhi, the country will require one unit of the BMD. That was to cost then $ 700 million.
And, on closer examination the Indian delegation had found that actually just to secure Delhi, five systems would be required costing at that time $ 3.5 billion.
The present cost of the programme will obviously more prohibitive. Plus, the prudence of inducting such a system can also be questioned. For no BMD system can be foolproof. And the induction of such systems can lead to a nuclear arms race because to ensure ‘first strike ‘ capacity, a country like Pakistan will require to produce larger and more sophisticated nuclear missiles.
India May Ink Nuke Sub Deal, Hold back on S-400 Missiles, FGFA During Modi's Russia Visit
Indians are requested to Hold their respective orgasms for a while.
Perhaps Russia has tied it to the confirmation of FGFA
@Windjammer @MastanKhan @Oscar
Here is the situation.
India and France have finalized the RAFALE deal for 126 (36 +90). It's just a matter of announcing the deal during the summit level talks scheduled around 26th Jan, 2016.
Indian and Russia have already finalized the S-400 deal but Russia is apprehensive that India may loose interest in PAK-FA/FGFA (in short term) once it has closed the deals for S-400s & RAFALEs hence has linked the S-400 deal with PAK-FA.
India in principle has agreed to the purchase of FGFA but is awaiting details on work share and schedule.
India and Russia would announce the deal for S-400s and 3 squadrons of PAK-FA during the summit.
FGFA deal most likely will be deferred to next year.