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Indian Air Force Chief Visits Russia
Indian Air Force Commander-in-Chief Shashindra Tyagi finished the week-long inspection of Russian aviation plants yesterday. The Indian official was interested in factories that output military hardware for the Indian Air Force as well as in those that are going to start produce aircrafts to execute new orders.
Marshal Tyagi inspected all major aircraft-building companies based in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk that carry out three Indian contracts on the production of Su-30MKI multi-task fighters, MiG-29K seaborne aircrafts and the refurbishing of India’s MiG-29s. The three contracts are worth $5 billion.
The Indian marshal visited Irkut, the aircraft-construction corporation, and reportedly favored the execution of the contract on the license production of 140 Su-30MKI jets by 2012, two years ahead of schedule. Irkut’s president Oleg Demchenko also told Kommersant that the company will soon sign a contract to deliver ten Su-30MKIs jets to the Indian Air Force. The contract is estimated at $400 million.
The chief of the Indian Air Force expressed interest in the joint development of the MTS multitask transport aircraft by Russia’s Irkut and the Ilyushin Design Bureau and India’s HAL. The intergovernmental agreement with India has been drawn up and is due to be signed by the end of the year.
Marshal Tyagi finished his visit in St. Petersburg where we inspected the Klimov and Krasny Oktyabr plants that produce engines and units for MiG-29 jets.
Ivan Safronov
All the Article in Russian as of June 05, 2006
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