{"id":42356,"date":"2019-02-23T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T10:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=42356"},"modified":"2019-02-23T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T10:10:38","slug":"india-russia-close-to-inking-multi-billion-agreement-for-ak-103-assault-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-russia-close-to-inking-multi-billion-agreement-for-ak-103-assault-rifles\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Russia close to inking multi-billion agreement for AK-103 assault rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-russia-close-to-inking-multi-billion-agreement-for-ak-103-assault-rifles\/article26344245.ece\"><strong>India, Russia close to inking multi-billion agreement for AK-103 assault rifles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>India and Russia are finalising an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) for a multi-billion deal to locally manufacture AK-103 assault rifles.<\/li>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India, Russia close to inking multi-billion agreement for AK-103 assault rifles 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-russia-close-to-inking-multi-billion-agreement-for-ak-103-assault-rifles\/\">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":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704647212},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42356","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=42356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}