Putin's visit could help sort out glitches in India-Russia defence ties
President Vladimir Putin's visit to India on December 10 is expected to ease some heartburn among the two staunch allies.
NEW DELHI: Russia remains extremely miffed with India for selecting French Rafale fighters and American Apache attack helicopters over its products but maintains that its recently inked military cooperation pact with Pakistan will not be "detrimental" to Indian security interests.
India, of course, is angry with Russia's move to lift an informal arms embargo and directly supply Mi-35 attack helicopters to Pakistan. "Russia is obviously getting back at us for increasingly turning to the US, France, Israel and others for weapon supplies. But we cannot put all our eggs in one (Russian) basket," a senior defence official said.
President Vladimir Putin's visit here on December 10 is expected to ease some heartburn among the two staunch allies, which has seen Russia notching arms sales to India worth well over $40 billion since the first MiG-21s in 1963.
India, of course, is angry with Russia's move to lift an informal arms embargo and directly supply Mi-35 attack helicopters to Pakistan. "Russia is obviously getting back at us for increasingly turning to the US, France, Israel and others for weapon supplies. But we cannot put all our eggs in one (Russian) basket," a senior defence official said.
President Vladimir Putin's visit here on December 10 is expected to ease some heartburn among the two staunch allies, which has seen Russia notching arms sales to India worth well over $40 billion since the first MiG-21s in 1963.
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