{"id":171789,"date":"2022-03-02T20:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=171789"},"modified":"2022-03-02T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:50:03","slug":"india-faces-uncertainty-over-defence-supplies-from-russia-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-faces-uncertainty-over-defence-supplies-from-russia-and-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"India faces uncertainty over defence supplies from Russia and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis, India faces uncertainty over its delivery of weapons from both Russia and Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>India-Russia Defence Cooperation<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Defence trade between <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and Russia has crossed $15bn since 2018. Currently, over 60% of Indian military inventory is of Russian origin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, India has signed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/s400-triumf-missile-system-purchase-issue-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S-400 air defence systems<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dac-approves-ak-203-deal-with-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AK-203 assault rifles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> defence deals with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is also looking to receive the third Akula class nuclear attack submarine(SSN) sometime in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, in the current situation, India faces the risk of being sanctioned by the US for the acquisition of the S-400 missile system from Russia under the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-caatsa-or-countering-americas-adversaries-through-sanctions-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Countering America\u2019s Adversaries through Sanctions Act{CAATSA}.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>India-Ukraine Defence Cooperation<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India had signed a separate deal with Ukraine for eight Zorya-Mashproekt gas turbine engines for the frigates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ukraine is also upgrading over 100 An-32 transport aircraft of the IAF under a deal finalised in 2009.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2021, Ukraine has signed four agreements worth $70 mn which includes the sale of new weapons as well as maintenance and the upgrade of the existing ones in service with the Indian military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>India faces uncertainty over defence supplies from Russia and Ukraine<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on<\/span><b> 2nd March 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis, India faces uncertainty over its delivery of weapons from both Russia and Ukraine. India-Russia Defence Cooperation The Defence trade between India and Russia has crossed $15bn since 2018. Currently, over 60% of Indian military inventory is of Russian origin. For instance, India has signed S-400 air defence&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-faces-uncertainty-over-defence-supplies-from-russia-and-ukraine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India faces uncertainty over defence supplies from Russia and Ukraine<\/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":[10498],"class_list":["post-171789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704873778},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171789","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=171789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}