The Week

Russia has remained India’s largest supplier of weaponry since the 1970s. In recent decades, irritants have emerged in the India-Russia strategic relationship. These include India purchasing weapons from the US and continued disputes over performance and reliability of Russian equipment. Another key irritant has been Russian arms sales to China, and, more recently, Pakistan.

On Tuesday, Russia’s Sputnik news agency quoted an official as saying Russia was designing a ‘non-nuclear’ submarine with China. Viktor Kladov, Director for International Cooperation and Regional Policy of the state arms export corporation Rostec, told Sputnik, “We are currently cooperating with the Chinese side on a joint project of a new generation non-nuclear submarine. For now, it is too early to talk about the deadlines for the completion of works.”

Kladov was speaking on the side-lines of an arms exhibition in Moscow. Kladov said Russia was cooperating with China on weapons for land, aerial and naval use.

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