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Exactly.
India have many to turn to for its defensive needs. Russia knows that it will be them who will lose out on the billions which India dish out every year. What surprises me is their careless attitude towards India. Consumer confidence is a major factor for sales. They have already let India down by mounting up the cost and what they did by delaying was simply adding salt to injury.
Not that the Indian armed forces are jumping with joy in going for western weaponry, they know that the only nation they can trust in the time of emergency is Russia (which din't oppose Indian nuclear tests, never sanctioned India, etc.), so they would have been more than happy to give orders to the Russians, but the poor after sales support in addition to the poor capabilities of the weapon itself (in comparison to western tech.) is forcing to divert there purchase of weaponry away from Russia.