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NEW DELHI: Russia has agreed to look at ways to advance the delivery of the S-400 Triumf missile defence system following India’s request amid growing tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Economic Times has reliably gathered that this issue figured during defence minister Rajnath Singh’s meetings in Moscow with Russian officials including deputy PM Yury Borisov on Tuesday. Defence secretary Ajay Kumar also held separate meetings with his Russian counterpart.
Russia had postponed the delivery of the S-400 system to December 2021 on account of the Covid-19 pandemic. New Delhi, sources said, is keen that Moscow makes special arrangement for India’s order, which has apparently been bunched with some other countries.
On the issue of ‘reliability of supplies’, Russia has assured India that it will maintain its military commitments in any situation, sources said.
Moscow may also expedite a JV between the two countries to manufacture spare parts of Soviet and Russia-made defence equipment, ET has further learnt. The pact was signed in 2019. The status of 200 Kamov Ka-226T helicopters and Self-Propelled Air Defence Gun Missile System (SPAD-GMS) project also came up for discussion.
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Economic Times has reliably gathered that this issue figured during defence minister Rajnath Singh’s meetings in Moscow with Russian officials including deputy PM Yury Borisov on Tuesday. Defence secretary Ajay Kumar also held separate meetings with his Russian counterpart.
Russia had postponed the delivery of the S-400 system to December 2021 on account of the Covid-19 pandemic. New Delhi, sources said, is keen that Moscow makes special arrangement for India’s order, which has apparently been bunched with some other countries.
On the issue of ‘reliability of supplies’, Russia has assured India that it will maintain its military commitments in any situation, sources said.
Moscow may also expedite a JV between the two countries to manufacture spare parts of Soviet and Russia-made defence equipment, ET has further learnt. The pact was signed in 2019. The status of 200 Kamov Ka-226T helicopters and Self-Propelled Air Defence Gun Missile System (SPAD-GMS) project also came up for discussion.
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