India-Russia Defence Ties<\/b><\/h5>\n
India was almost solely dependent on the British and other Western nations for its arms imports immediately after Independence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But this dependence decreased and by the 1970s India was importing several weapons systems from the USSR, making it the country\u2019s largest defence importer for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n Russia is the second-largest arms exporter in the world, following only the United States.\u00a0<\/span>For Russia, India is the largest importer and for India, Russia is the largest exporter when it comes to arms transfer. <\/span>Between 2000 and 2020, Russia accounted for 66.5% of India\u2019s arms imports.<\/span><\/p>\n The f<\/span>irst submarine \u201cINS Kalvari\u201d was of the Soviet era. Currently, out of the total 16 conventional diesel-electric submarines with the Indian Navy, eight are of Soviet origins.<\/span><\/p>\n The only aircraft carrier in service with India, INS Vikramaditya is a Soviet-made Kiev-class vessel that came into service for the Indian Navy in 2013.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The BrahMos missile, which India will begin exporting soon, has been developed jointly with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n The Indian Army\u2019s main battle tank force is composed predominantly of Russian.<\/span><\/p>\n Four of the Navy\u2019s 10 guided-missile destroyers are Russian Kashin class, and 6 of its 17 frigates are Russian Talwar class.<\/span><\/p>\n The Indian Air Force\u2019s fighter ground attack (FGA) fleet is 71% Russian-origin.<\/span><\/p>\n Is India trying to expand its defence base?<\/b><\/p>\n According to a SIPRI report, arms imports by India have decreased by 33% between 2011\u201315 and 2016\u201320.<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, India has also broad-based its arms import, increasingly turning to the US, France and Israel for arms imports over the last 15 years. But still, over 60% of the weapons systems used by Indian armed forces are of Russian origin.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cExplained: How dependent is India on Russia\u2019s weapons\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on<\/span> 2nd March 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? In the Russia-Ukraine crisis, India has been trying to walk a fine line, negotiating its relationships with the United States and other Western nations on one side and the historically deep and strategic ties with Russia on the other. India-Russia Defence Ties India was almost solely dependent on the British and… Continue reading Explained: How dependent is India on Russia\u2019s weapons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-171785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704731257},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171785","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How much is India dependent on Russia\u2019s weapons?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What kind of weapons has Russia given to India?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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