- 12:33 27/04/2012 KALININGRAD, April 27 (RIA Novosti)
India on Friday formally commissioned a new frigate into its navy, following a handover ceremony at a shipyard in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.
- 13:05 30/03/2012 NEW DELHI, March 30 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and India are in talks to jointly develop a hypersonic cruise missile and will soon agree on a general outline of the design, the head of the BrahMos Indian-Russian cruise missile program, Praveen Pathak, said on Friday at the Defexpo defense show in Delhi.
- 13:02 30/03/2012 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov
Russia has arrived at the DEFEXPO 2012 exhibition in India in the shadow of its own recent failures and the success of Western weapons manufacturers on the Indian arms market. But is Russia’s position on the Indian market really so weak?
- 10:31 27/03/2012 NEW DELHI, March 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has offered help India build air-independent (closed cycle) propulsion systems for installation in Amur 1650 class submarines and also to equip future possible joint Indian-Russian built vessels, Viktor Komardin, the deputy head of Rosoboronexport's delegation said at the Defexpo Indian defense show on Tuesday.
- 21:52 23/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russian personnel have resumed construction work at India’s Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant after almost six months of local protests, Russian contractor Atomstroyexport said on Friday.
- 10:43 19/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 19 (RIA Novosti)
India has topped a rating of the world's largest heavy arms importers, released on Monday by the independent Stockholm-based International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), researching into conflicts, arms control and disarmament.
- 19:44 07/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti)
The Indian Defense Ministry has barred six companies, including a small Russian defense firm, from bidding for defense contracts for the next 10 years, Russia’s Vedomosti newspaper reported citing Indian media.
- 18:11 20/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti)
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is planning to procure 71 more Mi-17 V5 helicopters, including 12 for the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Business Standard daily reported on Monday.
- 14:34 17/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 17 (RIA Novosti)
The Indian Air Force has put into service the first batch of 80 Mi-17V-5 tactical transport helicopters under a $1.3 billion deal, Russian state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Friday.
- 06:47 23/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s K-152 Nerpa nuclear-powered attack submarine has been handed over to the Indian Navy, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Monday.
- 03:25 23/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s K-152 Nerpa nuclear-powered attack submarine will be handed over to the Indian Navy on Monday, a top official in the United Shipbuilding Corporation said.
- 13:17 17/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian aircraft carrier which is being refurbished for the Indian Navy will begin sea trials in May for the first time in two decades and is to be handed over to India by December 2012, a shipyard official said on Tuesday.
- 12:45 13/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will hand over the nuclear-powered Akula class attack submarine, the Nerpa, to the Indian Navy “by the end of January,” a source in the United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Friday.
- 13:16 28/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Nerpa nuclear submarine has finished sea trials and is now ready to be leased to the Indian navy in the next few days, an engineer says.
- 15:35 16/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russia would support India’s candidacy for permanent membership in the United Nations’ Security Council if a decision on the council’s extension is made, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during a news conference following talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Moscow.
- 15:03 16/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 16 - RIA Novosti
Russia and India intend to cooperate in the production of satellite navigation equipment and to provide services to civilian users of the Glonass system, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday in a statement.
- 19:40 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and India are set to sign an array of documents on energy and military-technical cooperation during the Indian prime minister’s visit to Moscow, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said on Thursday.
- 02:35 09/11/2011 NEW DELHI, November 9 (RIA Novosti)
India is close to purchase two additional Russian-Israeli airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft, the Times of India newspaper reported.
- 07:23 04/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and his Indian counterpart Arackaparambil Kurian Antony will on Tuesday hold a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on military-technical cooperation, the Russian ministry reported.
- 00:40 13/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's MiG aircraft maker will deliver a final batch of five MiG-29K/KUB carrier-based fighters to the Indian Navy under a 2004 contract by the end of this year, the company said.
- 20:01 03/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's MiG aircraft corporation has launched production of a new batch of MiG29K/KUB carrier fighters for the Indian Navy, a MiG spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 14:59 12/06/2011
The Russian-Indian joint venture Brahmos Aerospace will start developing a new Brahmos-2 hypersonic missile this year, Brahmos Aerospace Director Alexander Maksichev said on Sunday.
- 14:19 03/06/2011
The Indian Navy is disappointed with Russia's last- minute cancellation of joint naval drills in the Pacific Ocean in April, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma said.
- 03:17 31/05/2011
Russia's MiG aircraft maker delivered a new batch of five MiG-29K/KUB carrier-based fighters to the Indian navy in May, the company said.
- 11:26 28/04/2011
France's Dassault Rafale and the Eurofighter Typhoon look set to be on the final shortlist for a $10 billion tender for 126 fighter aircraft for the Indian air force, after Sweden's SAAB was dropped, the Times of India said on Thursday.
- 18:56 15/02/2011 RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik
The Indian tender for 126 MMRCAs (medium multi-role combat aircraft) to replace its ageing MiG-21s was announced long ago, but only now is the real intrigue unfolding.
- 11:55 10/02/2011
India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is not interested in civil aviation projects and a proposal by Russia's Irkut aircraft corporation to jointly develop MS-21 medium-haul airliners, HAL Chief Finance Officer D. Shivamurti said on Thursday.
- 11:22 10/02/2011
The Russian-Indian joint development of a fifth generation fighter jet will cost some $6 billion, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) Financial director D. Shivamurti said
- 05:09 02/02/2011
Russia's MiG-35 will not fly in the Aero India 2011 air show in Bangalore later this month, although its maker MiG maintains it is still a contender in a deal to supply 126 light fighter jets to the Indian air force.
- 13:24 21/12/2010
The Russian government has paid the rupee equivalent of $600 million for a stake of approximately 17% in telecommunications operator Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL), a joint venture between AFK Sistema and Shyam Group of India, Sistema said on Tuesday.
- 12:23 20/12/2010
The Russian-Indian second prototype T-50 fighter aircraft will take to the skies in early 2011, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) President Alexei Fyodorov said on Monday.
- 11:49 20/12/2010
Russia's United Aircraft Corporation is in talks with Indian firms on production of the Antonov An-148 regional airliner in India in its passenger and cargo versions, UAC President Alexei Fyodorov said on Monday.
- 19:55 16/12/2010
India and Russia have registered a joint venture, MTA Limited, to develop and manufacture a new transport aircraft in line with previous agreements, the head of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) said.
- 12:15 16/12/2010
Russia and India have agreed the estimated cost of a design contract for their joint fifth-generation fighter project at $295 million, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Chairman Ashok Nayak said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
- 10:38 16/12/2010
Russian shipbuilding plant Yantar has asked Russia's state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, for an additional $100 million to complete construction of three frigates for the Indian Navy, Russian business daily Kommersant said on Thursday.
- 17:56 08/12/2010
The Russian-Indian joint Indra military drills will involve three branches of the armed forces and may be held every year in the future, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Wednesday.
- 14:49 07/12/2010
Russia is completing the modernization of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier which has been renamed the Vikramaditya. The ship will be transferred to the Indian Navy in 2012.
- 03:37 07/12/2010
The chief of the Russian General Staff, Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov, will visit India on December 7-9 to discuss bilateral military cooperation, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 09:58 02/12/2010
India successfully test-fired a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a military base in the northeastern coastal state of Orissa on Thursday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said.
- 10:49 26/11/2010
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will travel to India on November 29 ahead of President Dmitry Medvedev's visit in December, a ministry spokesman said.
- 21:49 18/11/2010
Russian-Indian 2010 trade turnover will near $10 billion, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Thursday.
- 20:24 18/11/2010
Russia and India are highly likely to sign a fifth-generation fighter design contract in December, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Thursday.
- 02:13 04/11/2010
Russia has completed its part of a contract on the delivery of A-50 Mainstay AWACS aircraft to India, a Russian aircraft industry official said.
- 20:05 27/10/2010
Russia is planning to sign in December an agreement with India on the preliminary design of a joint fifth-generation fighter aircraft, a senior Russian aircraft industry official said on Wednesday.
- 17:05 27/10/2010
Correction - Gazprom is considering the possibility of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal with India, Gazprom's head of Foreign Relations Stanislav Tsygankov said on Monday.
- 15:29 25/10/2010
Russian gas giant Gazprom is considering a possible swap of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies to India in exchange for its 20 percent stake in the Sakhalin-1 project, Gazprom's head of Foreign Relations Stanislav Tsygankov said on Monday.
- 12:03 23/10/2010
Russian and Indian troops completed a drill to kill a fictional terrorist leader in the Indian Himalayas as part of the Indra-2010 joint military exercises, which finished on Saturday.
- 15:39 17/10/2010
Russian troops started on Sunday an active phase of anti-terrorist drills on Indian territory as part of joint Russian-Indian exercises, the Russian Defense ministry said.
- 10:37 16/10/2010
Russian and Indian joint antiterrorism drills begin on Indian territory, Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
- 14:58 15/10/2010
India intends to cooperate with Russian oil giant Rosneft in Russia, India and other countries, Secretary of India's Ministry Of Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri S.Sundareshan said on Friday.
- 06:05 15/10/2010
Russian and Indian joint antiterrorism exercises begin on Indian territory on Friday and will last through October 24.
- 20:41 13/10/2010
A Russian think tank put Russia in the first place on the list of major arms suppliers to India in 2002-2009.
- 12:43 08/10/2010
Russia and India have signed an agreement on the creation of a joint venture to develop and manufacture a multifunctional transport aircraft, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
- 15:06 07/10/2010
India is planning to buy up to 300 co-produced fifth-generation fighters and 45 military transport aircraft from Russia, the Indian defense minister said on Thursday.
- 02:34 07/10/2010
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, on a two-day visit to India since Wednesday, will discuss bilateral military cooperation on Thursday.
- 13:38 01/10/2010
Russia will transfer the K-152 Nerpa attack submarine to India on a 10-year lease in March 2011, the governor of the Far East Khabarovsk region said on Friday.
- 12:13 01/10/2010
New Delhi and Moscow are negotiating long-term contracts to supply diamonds from Russia and the opening of an office for Russian diamond monopoly ALROSA in India, the Indian Trade Ministry said on Friday.
- 03:09 11/09/2010
Air forces of Russia and India may hold joint exercises in the next few years, Russian Air Force chief, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin, said after his visit to India.
- 20:50 09/09/2010
India and Russia on Thursday agreed to set up a joint venture to manufacture a military transport plane.
- 13:52 06/09/2010
India successfully test-fired the BrahMos cruise missile with the missile performing its first steep dive at supersonic speed, The Hindu reported on Monday.
- 13:21 27/08/2010
The Indian-Russian venture BrahMos Aerospace Ltd. plans to produce engines for Brahmos missiles in India, CEO Sivathanu Pillai said on Friday.
- 11:42 24/08/2010
India hopes Russia will go ahead with the construction of a nuclear power plant at Haripur in eastern India, despite Russia's concerns over ongoing local protests, the Times of India newspaper reported on Tuesday.
- 14:17 23/08/2010
Russia has asked India to shift the site of a nuclear power plant at Haripur in eastern India, for which Russia has constructed two reactors, the Times of India paper reported on Monday.
- 16:46 19/08/2010
The Indian Air Force will soon order an additional 59 Russian Mil Mi-17 helicopters on top of the 80 ordered earlier, the IAF chief said on Thursday.
- 17:13 18/08/2010
India could spend up to $2.34 billion on modernization of its fleet of Su-30MKI Flanker-H fighters with the participation of Russian companies, the country's Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
- 19:18 12/08/2010
A fifth Indian Kilo class diesel-electric submarine has arrived to Russia's Zvezdochka shipyard for an overhaul under a recent contract, the shipyard company said on Thursday.
- 13:10 11/08/2010
Ahead of the scheduled Russian-Indian naval exercises, in which the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky will take part, Tatiana Shaumyan, director of the Center for Indian Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies, discusses the state of Russian-Indian relations and the prospects for defence cooperation between the two countries. Interview by Igor Chekunov.
- 17:23 15/07/2010
The BrahMos anti-ship missile was jointly developed by Russia’s Engineering Research and Production Association (NPO) and the Indian Defense Ministry’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO).
- 11:02 14/07/2010
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile developed jointly by Russia and India can become invisible and evade missile defense systems of modern military ships. It attacks a target diving in an inclined position. The missile’s name is an abbreviation of two rivers, India’s Brahmaputra and Russia’s Moskva.
- 20:19 23/06/2010
A Russian shipyard took out of dry dock on Wednesday the second of three frigates being built for India's Navy, a Yantar spokesman said.
- 10:05 30/05/2010
India has placed orders with the Russian defense industry to modernize Su-30MKI Flanker-H fighters produced in India under the Russian license, India Today magazine reported in its June issue, without disclosing the sum of the contract
- 14:43 04/05/2010
Russia will keep to the time period specified in the contract for the retrofit of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier for the Indian Navy, the head of Russia's united shipbuilding corporation said on Tuesday
- 11:39 17/03/2010
Russia has confirmed its readiness to transfer its Nerpa nuclear-powered attack submarine for a 10 year-lease to India, The Times of India reported on Wednesday citing defense ministry sources.
- 20:17 12/03/2010
Russia and India signed on Friday a host of high-profile deals during Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's working visit to the country
- 19:22 12/03/2010
India could provide Russia a third site for the construction of new nuclear power plants, Russia's nuclear chief said Friday
- 18:38 12/03/2010
Russia is not developing military cooperation with Pakistan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday
- 16:24 12/03/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday India should lift restrictions on Russian companies implementing Internet and other high-tech projects in India
- 16:12 12/03/2010
Russia and India have signed a $1.5-billion contract on the supplies of 29 more MiG-29K carrier-based fighter jets to New Delhi
- 12:55 12/03/2010
Russia may set up a free economic zone worth $3 billion in India intended to involve investors from third countries, the deputy chief of Russia's federal property agency said in an interview with the Russian government daily.
- 17:40 11/03/2010
Russia's largest diamond miner Alrosa said on Thursday it planned to sign three-year contracts with three Indian companies on the delivery of uncut diamonds worth $490 million.
- 15:03 11/03/2010
A new Russian-Indian military transport plane could make its maiden flight by 2018, the head of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) said
- 13:50 11/03/2010
India and Russia have agreed in general on shared responsibility for the joint development of the fifth-generation fighter, the chairman of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) said
- 10:02 11/03/2010
The Indian government's security committee has approved the allocation of $2.3 billion to retrofit the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier (INS Vikramaditya), the IANS news agency reported Thursday.
- 19:23 10/03/2010
Around 15 documents worth over $10 billion are expected to be signed during the Russian prime minister's visit to India, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 15:14 10/03/2010
RIA Novosti's correspondent in India Yevgeny Bezeka talks to the chairman of India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Srikumar Banerjee and Nuclear Power Corporation India Ltd chief S K Jain about prospects of cooperation between the two countries in the lucrative sector.
- 13:00 10/03/2010
India may join Russia's nuclear center of a low-enriched uranium (LEU) reserves project in Angarsk, the chairman of India's Atomic Energy Research Commission said.
- 16:57 09/03/2010
Russia and India might establish a joint venture to produce navigation equipment for GPS and its Russian equivalent Glonass, the head of the Russian federal satellite navigation operator said on Tuesday.
- 11:45 04/03/2010
Russia and India are expected to sign three contracts in military technical cooperation totaling $4 billion, including retrofitting the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to India, Vedomosti Russian daily reported.
- 16:05 02/03/2010
India and Russia are negotiating a new contract on the delivery of 42 Su-30MKI to the Indian Air Force, an Indian newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing military sources.
- 15:03 02/03/2010
A Russian-Indian fifth-generation fighter jet could be developed by 2015-2016, a Russian defense industry official said on Tuesday.
- 15:56 24/02/2010
The Indian Navy has formally taken delivery of Russian-made MiG-29K (Fulcrum) fighters, which will eventually be deployed on an aircraft carrier being refitted in Russia
- 17:35 19/02/2010
The Indian Navy on Friday formally took delivery of Russian-made MiG-29K fighters, which will eventually be deployed on an aircraft carrier being refitted in Russia.
- 14:21 18/02/2010
Russia's largest truck maker Kamaz said on Thursday it was opening an assembly facility in India on Friday with an annual output of 5,000 vehicles.
- 19:06 15/02/2010
Russia and India are to sign an additional agreement on a contract to upgrade the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrying cruiser, a Russian military cooperation service top official said Monday.
- 17:23 15/02/2010
Russia and India will sign the first contract on the manufacturing of a fifth-generation jet fighter in late February-early March, a Russian defense industry official said Monday.
- 13:14 04/02/2010
India's fleet of Su-30MKI Flanker-H fighters could be armed with BrahMos missiles by 2012, the vice president of the Irkut Corporation said at the Singapore Airshow 2010 on Thursday.
- 14:31 02/02/2010
India has plans to introduce into its armed forces the new BrahMos missile, the head of the BrahMos Aerospace company, Sivathanu Pillai, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
- 01:35 01/02/2010
Russia's security chief Nikolai Patrushev will visit India on February 1-2 for regional and international security talks with his new Indian counterpart Shiv Shankar Menon.
- 15:16 18/01/2010
Russia and India are poised to sign a $1.2 billion contract for another 29 MiG-29K fighter jets for the Indian Navy, an Indian daily reported on Monday.
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