A tank is tested at Nizhni Tagil proving ground, Russia.
Photo: Pavel Lisizyn
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India to Buy 300 Tanks in Russia
India intends to buy 300 upgraded T-90C tanks in Russia for a total worth of $866 million during two years. The Indian plant is licensed to make them, but it has faced some difficulties. The obvious winner is Russia’s maker of T-90C, Uralvagonzavod. For this enterprise, the contract means complete loading of military production facilities and the main source of 2007 growth in revenues.
India intends to order 300 T-90 tanks in Russia, the country’s NDTV reported yesterday with reference to K.P. Singh, a top-rank official of India’s Defense Ministry. The contract budget will reach $866 million and the delivery is to be made within two years.
The contract hasn’t been signed yet, specified Boris Mineev, chief of the PR department at Uralvagonzavod, which makes these tanks in Nizhni Tagil, Russia.
In February 2001, Moscow entered into the agreement with Delhi to deliver 310 T-90Cs, including 124 assembled at Uralvagonzavod. The remaining 186 tanks were handed over to India in component sets so that it could assemble them in the town of Avadi.
The agreement licenses India to assemble up to 1,000 T-90Cs and Rosoboronexport was in talks with India’s Defense Ministry to ship another consignment of 400 component sets for T-90Cs.
When explaining the decision to buy a consignment of ready-made tanks in Russia, Singh said India hadn't managed to master the line assembly work for some key devices of the tanks and the coordination with Russia’s suppliers was rather poor.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Dec. 26, 2006
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