{"id":1163,"date":"2019-02-23T14:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2019-02-23T14:34:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T09:04:53","slug":"india-russia-close-to-inking-multi-billion-agreement-for-ak-103-assault-rifles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-russia-close-to-inking-multi-billion-agreement-for-ak-103-assault-rifles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Russia close to inking multi-billion agreement for AK-103 assault rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India and Russia are finalising an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) for a multi-billion deal to locally manufacture AK-103 assault rifles.<\/li><li>According to the arrangement with Russia, a Kalashnikov factory will be set up in India in collaboration with the OFB (Ordnance Factories Board). It would cater to the forces for hinterland and counter-insurgency operations.<\/li><li>The Indian Armed Forces are currently equipped with INSAS(Indian National Small Arms System) Rifle.There is an urgent requirement of replacing the in-service INSAS Rifle with an Assault Rifle which is compact, robust and modern in technology.<\/li><li>India recently signed deals for S-400 air defence systems and stealth frigates.The agreement on Kamov-226T helicopters is in an advanced stage of negotiations.These deals are progressing in the backdrop of the looming threat of U.S. sanctions.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Russia are finalising an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) for a multi-billion deal to locally manufacture AK-103 assault rifles. According to the arrangement with Russia, a Kalashnikov factory will be set up in India in collaboration with the OFB (Ordnance Factories Board). It would cater to the forces for hinterland and counter-insurgency operations. The Indian&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-russia-close-to-inking-multi-billion-agreement-for-ak-103-assault-rifles-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India, Russia close to inking multi-billion agreement for AK-103 assault rifles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5211,801],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-ak-103","tag-india-russia","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704924527},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}