- 22:18 20/03/2013
India successfully test fired a submarine-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile on Wednesday, the BrahMos Aerospace Russian-Indian company said.
- 17:58 06/02/2013
India is to equip its Perspective Multirole Fighter (PMF) variant of the Russian T-50 fifth-generation combat aircraft with avionics similar to Russia’s version of the plane, United Aircraft Corporation President Mikhail Pogosyan said on Wednesday.
- 15:57 01/02/2013
Russia’s Sevmash shipyard has fixed the engine problems which caused a delay in the delivery of the refitted aircraft carrier Vikramaditya to the Indian navy last year, a United Shipbuilding Corporation source said on Friday.
- 17:10 28/01/2013
The INS Sindhurakshak, an Indian Navy diesel-electric submarine, was handed back to the service in an official ceremony following a major refit at Russia's Zvezdochka shipyard on January 26. Watch this video to see the submarine’s sea trials.
- 13:19 30/12/2012
The second of three stealth frigates that Russia builds for India at the Yantar Shipyard in Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad arrived at the port of Mumbai, an Indian Defense Ministry source said on Sunday.
- 21:07 26/12/2012
Russian Helicopters holding and India’s Elcom Systems Pvt Limited have signed an agreement to set up a joint venture to assemble Russian Mil and Kamov helicopters in India, the Russian holding said on Wednesday.
- 02:29 26/12/2012
India has asked Russia to replace the faulty parts on the leased Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine as they affect its operational readiness, the Times of India reported.
- 17:36 24/12/2012
Russia is to supply India with combat helicopters and warplanes worth $2.9 bln under a deal signed during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi on Monday.
- 17:30 24/12/2012
India expects to complete the construction of Unit 2 of its Kudankulam nuclear power plant, being built under a joint Russian-Indian project, next year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday.
- 14:29 24/12/2012
Russia is to sell India dozens of combat helicopters and warplanes under two $2.9 billion contracts signed on Monday.
- 12:39 24/12/2012
Unit 2 of India’s Kudankulam nuclear power plant, being built under a joint Russian-Indian project, will come into operation next year, Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko said on Monday.
- 03:00 24/12/2012
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived in India on Monday, said he hoped that by 2015 the two countries will double mutual trade turnover, which is expected to reach over $10 billion this year.
- 17:07 23/12/2012
Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive Monday in India on an official visit expected to focus on economic ties, energy and multi-billion dollar defense deals.
- 05:46 11/12/2012
The first three MiG-29UPG fighter jets have been delivered to India under a contract to modernize the fleet of MiG-29 aircraft in service with the Indian Air Force (IAF), the MiG aircraft maker said.
- 19:01 28/11/2012
Russia’s state arms exporter Rosoboronexport denied on Wednesday media reports that it had lost tenders on the delivery of heavy-lift helicopters and aerial tankers to the Indian air force.
- 04:13 09/11/2012
The second of three stealth frigates that Russia builds for India at the Yantar Shipyard in Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad will be handed over to the Indian Navy on Friday.
- 12:53 06/11/2012
India and Russia have signed two contracts for the delivery of Russian antitank missiles, a source close to the Indian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
- 13:40 19/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 19 (RIA Novosti)
The Indian government approved a $1.5-billion deal to buy 200 air-launched variants of the Russian-Indian BrahMos supersonic cruise missile and 10,000 Russian-made Invar anti-tank missiles.
- 10:45 12/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 12 (RIA Novosti)
BrahMos, the Russian-Indian supersonic cruise missile joint venture, is to test-fire their anti-ship missile from a submarine platform by year-end, the Russian partner NPO Mashninostroyenie said Friday.
- 14:00 10/10/2012 NEW DELHI, October 10 (RIA Novosti)
Russia plans to deliver the overhauled aircraft carrier Vikramaditya to the Indian Navy in the fourth quarter of 2013, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday after an intergovernmental meeting in New Delhi.
- 13:02 10/10/2012 NEW DELHI, October 10 (RIA Novosti)
India will begin production of an export variant of Russian plane-maker Sukhoi's T-50 stealth fighter from 2020, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday during a visit to Delhi.
- 04:50 10/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has departed for India where he will attend a meeting of the Russian-Indian intergovernmental commission for military-technical cooperation.
- 13:25 09/10/2012 NEW DELHI, October 9 (RIA Novosti)
India may seek more than $100 million in penalty payments from Russia for delays in handing over the refitted aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, India's Economic Times reported on Tuesday.
- 17:10 02/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti)
The refurbishment of an Indian Navy aircraft carrier has hit further snags, with handover delayed to fall 2013, Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Tuesday.
- 13:49 28/09/2012 BEIJING, September 28 (RIA Novosti)
China has denied Russian claims that Chinese firebricks were to blame for boiler failures in the Russian-refitted Indian Navy aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, which suffered propulsion problems during sea trials in the Barents Sea last month, local daily Beitsin Chenbao reported, quoting Defense Minister Yan Yujun.
- 16:22 21/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 21 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and India will discuss in October the situation around technical failures found in sea trials of an aircraft carrier refitted for India by a Russian shipyard.
- 05:10 19/09/2012 KALININGRAD, September 19 (RIA Novosti)
A Talwar class frigate being built for the Indian Navy at the Yantar Shipyard in Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad has begun dock trials, the shipyard said.
- 12:47 18/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti)
Sea trials of an Indian Navy aircraft carrier refitted by a Russian shipyard were unsuccessful due to design failures in the vessel's boilers, Russian daily Vedomosti wrote on Tuesday quoting the shipyard's former director Oleg Shulyakovsky.
- 12:30 17/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 17 (RIA Novosti)
Malfunctions during sea trials of the Indian Navy aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, refitted by a Russian shipyard, will delay the vessel’s handover to India yet again, Kommersant business daily reported on Monday.
- 18:18 05/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow and Delhi have agreed to set up a joint venture in India for manufacturing and post-sales servicing of rockets for Russian Smerch multiple rocket launchers, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.
- 11:26 21/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing has won a $1.4 billion deal to supply India with 22 helicopter gunships, beating off competition from Russia's Mil Mi-28, the Times of India reported on Tuesday.
- 00:54 07/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and India will hold on Tuesday an official opening of joint INDRA-2012 anti-terrorism military exercises in the Siberian republic of Buryatia, a spokesman for Russia’s Eastern Military District said.
- 15:26 29/07/2012 NEW DELHI, July 29 (RIA Novosti)
The Indian army has successfully test-fired a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, a spokesman for BrahMos Aerospace, which produces the missile, said on Sunday.
- 14:58 23/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 23 (RIA Novosti)
A MiG-29KUB two-seat naval fighter jet made the first touch-and-go landings last week on the Indian Navy aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, Sevmash shipyard said on Monday.
- 15:59 16/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 16 (RIA Novosti)
The Indian Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the Vikramaditya, has headed into the Barents Sea for second-stage sea trials, as part of its refit by Russia's Sevmash shipyard, Captain Vadim Serga of Russia's Northern Fleet information service said on Monday.
- 13:52 29/06/2012 ZHUKOVSKY (Moscow Region), June 29 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is nearing a deal with India on manufacture and delivery of advanced tank ammunition, Rosoboronexport, a state-run arms exporter, said on Friday.
- 17:57 27/06/2012 ZHUKOVSKY (Moscow region), June 27 (RIA Novosti)
The first prototype of a hypersonic cruise missile being jointly developed by Russia and India will be ready for flight testing in 2017, CEO of the Russian-Indian joint venture Brahmos Aerospace, Sivathanu Pillai, said on Wednesday.
- 11:36 22/06/2012 NEW DELHI, June 22 (RIA Novosti)
A new stealth frigate built for the Indian navy by Russia arrived in the port of Mumbai on Friday, a diplomat said.
- 13:48 30/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti)
India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Transport Aircraft division have signed a contract to produce 205 multi-role transport aircraft (MTA), the Indo-Asian News Agency (IANS) has reported.
- 16:22 24/05/2012 KALININGRAD, May 24 (RIA Novosti)
A Talwar class frigate being built for the Indian Navy at the Yantar Shipyard in Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad departed on Thursday for sea trials, the shipyard said.
- 21:16 23/05/2012 SEVERODVINSK, May 23 (RIA Novosti)
Sea trials of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier being overhauled for the Indian navy at the Sevmash shipyard in northern Russia have been postponed until the beginning of June, the shipyard said on Wednesday.
- 12:11 16/05/2012 MINSK, May 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is to put up for sale a batch of 18 Sukhoi Su-30 multirole fighter aircraft, rejected by India on concerns about their engines and returned to Russia in 2003, a defense official said on Wednesday.
- 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.
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