India and Russia joint military projects: News

Russia ready to start manufacturing Kalashnikov assault rifles in India

The joint venture is currently preparing a technical and commercial proposal for the Indian Defense Ministry

LUCKNOW /India/, February 5. /TASS/. The Russian-Indian joint venture for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles is ready to start manufacturing them, a commercial proposal for the Indian Defense Ministry is being prepared, Deputy Director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Vladimir Drozhzhov told reporters on Wednesday at the DefExpo 2020 international defense exhibition in Lucknow, India.

"The joint venture is currently preparing a technical and commercial proposal for the Indian Defense Ministry. The Russian side is ready to start manufacturing assault rifles as early as this year," he said.

The Russian-Indian joint venture Indo-Russia Rifles Private Limited for the production of 200-series Kalashnikov assault rifles started production in India’s Korwa in March 2019.

The joint ventures for the production of AK-203 Kalashnikov assault rifles (the localization of production will reach 100%) and Kamov Ka-226T helicopters were earlier registered in India with the assistance of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation and the Rostec corporation.


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Borisov is 100% correct here. he has probably see the UAV fighters on the drawing board that no manned fighter will be able to defeat. Once these are out, the jig is up for manned fighters. Thousands of F-35 will be instantly obsolete. Can an AAM shoot down a UAV that is just as fast and can also do 20G's? not easy.....

miketheterrible wrote:

In July, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said that Russia sees no sense "to speed up the work for the mass production of fifth generation aircraft".

View from Moscow: https://vz.ru/world/2020/6/25/1045947.print.html

https://www.ng.ru/news/685091.html?print=Y

https://nvo.ng.ru/armament/2020-07-16/1_1100_aircrafts.html?print=Y

Tsavo Lion wrote:https://www.ng.ru/news/685091.html?print=Y

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Terrible decision. Kremlin should not allow India to use Russian military bases. India has ulterior motives.

India will get involved in a conflict with either China and Pakistan and use Russian bases to attack these two countries thereby drawing Russia into that conflict.

It'll be mainly the Russians using Indian bases, not vice versa.
India's use of Russian bases will be approved on case-by case basis; mostly during joint exercises, trials &/ port visits.

Russia and India will develop an AWACS killer Brahmos

https://sputniknews.com/military/202009141080450537-russia-india-to-launch-new-brahmos-missile-capable-of-downing-aircraft-with-awacs-system-by-2024/

Will be excellent if it has a combined passive + active seeker system

GarryB wrote:I would expect passive and active radar as well as IIR, because most large radar antenna as used in AWACS platforms generate a very large amount of heat that remains after the radar itself is turned off.

The amount of fuel this missile could carry and the altitude it would need to fly at should make enormous ranges possible...

Even a solid rocket boosted ground launched version would be very interesting for some poorer countries who might find HATO threatening them...

Interesting that the joint Russia-India Company BRAHMOS now wants to develop a long range air to air missile.

India and certainly Russia already has long range air to air missiles with which they can target enemy AWACs.

Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant is manufacturing two Ka-226T prototype helicopters for India

As reported on November 26, 2020, Russian Helicopters JSC (part of the Rostec State Corporation), the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant JSC, which is part of it, has completed the preparation of the fuselage assembly line for the Ka-226T light helicopter. The line has produced two fuselages, which will be transferred to JSC "Technodinamika" at the end of November for testing an accident-resistant fuel system. Fuselage of one of two prototypes of Ka-226T helicopters for India manufactured at Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant JSC. Ulan-Ude, November 2020 (c) Russian Helicopters JSC

During the visit to Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant, the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov got acquainted with the assembly line of the Ka-226T helicopter. Until the end of 2020, U-UAZ will assemble a number of stands and assemblies of the Ka-226T helicopter for static, dynamic and life tests. In particular, the production of a test bench for bird resistance and a test bench for windshield cleaning systems is currently being completed.

"Now we are focused on the manufacture of fuselages and machine units for various tests, but at the same time we are working on the creation of prototypes of the Ka-226T helicopter, which we expect to fly into the air in the first half of 2021," explained U-UAZ managing director Leonid White.

To date, the enterprise has already produced thousands of items of equipment: from small templates to large-sized assembly slipways. In September, a slipway for the general fuselage assembly of the Ka-226T helicopter was manufactured and installed, into which already manufactured units are laid: the cockpit bottom, middle and central fuselage compartments, tail booms and tail assembly.

A complete set of design documentation (CD), taking into account all the requirements of a potential customer (Ministry of Defense of the Republic of India) is currently being transferred to the plant, this process will be completed by the end of the year.

The Ka-226T light multi-purpose helicopter with a twin-rotor coaxial carrier system has a maximum take-off weight of 3.6 tons and is capable of carrying up to 1 ton of payload. The Ka-226T became the first machine in the domestic helicopter industry, the development of which was carried out entirely in virtual space without the use of paper media. This makes it possible to significantly reduce risks and costs, both for the development of the helicopter itself and for making changes during the subsequent modernization of the machine.

How reminiscent of the news agency "Interfax", the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and India on cooperation in the helicopter industry was signed in 2015. However, the contract for 200 Ka-226T helicopters with a total value of $ 1 billion has not yet been concluded.

In February 2019, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov announced that the start of production of the Ka-226T jointly with India is scheduled for 2021.

According to the agreement signed in 2015, the Russian Helicopters holding organizes deliveries to India and the localization of production in this country of the Russian Ka-226T helicopter and its modifications in the amount of 200 units, of which at least 140 machines will be produced at the facilities of the joint venture in India. The agreement also provides for the maintenance, operation, repair of helicopters and the provision of their technical support.

It is planned that the production of the Ka-226T for the Indian customer at the first stage will be carried out in Ulan-Ude, and then gradually transferred to the site of the Russian-Indian joint venture Indo-Russian Helicopters Limited in India. Currently, the Ka-226T is produced at the Kumertau Aviation Enterprise (KumAPP) in Bashkiria.



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India has procured gas turbine engines from Ukraine and handed over to Russia to install them on the Admiral Grigorovich-class guided-missile stealth frigates

https://theprint.in/defence/india-gets-ukrainian-engines-for-its-stealth-frigates-sends-them-to-shipbuilder-in-russia/587923/

India approves deal to produce Russian AK-203 assault rifles — agency

The decision was made during a session of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh

NEW DELHI, November 23. /TASS/. The Defense Ministry of India gave its final approval to a deal with Russia to produce AK-203 assault rifles in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the ANI news agency reported on Tuesday citing own sources.

According to the report, the decision to approve the deal was made during a session of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh.

The Economic Times newspaper reported earlier in the day that over 600,000 AK-203 assault rifles for the needs of the Indian armed forces are to be manufactured over a 10-year period. The first batch of 70,000 Kalashnikovs will be delivered from Russia within the period of two years and eight months.

The production of AK-203 is to begin in early 2022, at a joint enterprise known as Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited. The facility was created in March 2019, on the basis of a plant in Korwa, a town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The deal, if successful, will make India the first foreign country to produce the AK-200 series of the world-famous Kalashnikov assault rifles.

https://tass.com/defense/1365359

Russia, India to reorient to joint development and production of defense systems

https://tass.com/defense/1371631

GarryB wrote:They are also licence producing Ka-226Ts which should allow them to perform rapid resupply to isolated posts fairly easily in the near future.

Purchase of Ka-226 has been cancelled because Ka-226 is powered by a French engine and CAATSA sanctions mean France won't export those engines to Russia.