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Report: Russia makes 'all-or-nothing' defense sale offer to India
Sat Dec 7, 6:04 AM ET
NEW DELHI, India - Russia will sell nuclear submarines and long-range bomber aircraft to India only if New Delhi buys jet trainer aircraft as well, a news report said Saturday.
"There has to be one package agreement," Mikhail Dmitriev, Russia's deputy defense minister, was quoted as saying by The Hindustan Times.
"We ... expect to conclude the package agreement before next summer," said Dmitriev, also the chairman of Russia's Committee for Military Technical Cooperation, which oversees defense exports.
India is reportedly seeking to purchase Russia's Akula class of nuclear-powered submarines and the TU-22 long-range bomber-cum-reconnaissance aircraft.
Indian Defense Ministry officials in New Delhi and Dmitriev in Moscow were not immediately available for comment.
India has been Russia's top customer of military hardware since the Soviet era.
India has been trying to buy advanced jet trainers for nearly a decade, and was earlier reported to have been in the final stages of negotiations with Britain's BAE Systems PLc for 66 Hawk 100 aircraft.
However, India's Defense Minister George Fernandes told Parliament last month that "various options" were being considered.
The Indian Air Force has been training young pilots with obsolete trainer aircraft. Over six years, more than 100 crashes have killed approximately 50 pilots.
