Russia, India agree on delivery of 29 ship-based jets.

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NEW DELHI, March 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia and India have agreed on the
delivery of 29 Mikoyan MiG-29K ship-based jets, Sukhoi Corporation head
Mikhail Pogosyan said on Friday. Prime Tass posted the report.

The contract is worth $1.5 billion, and the deliveries will start in
2012, he said.
"We plan to fulfill the bulk of the first contract, signed in 2009,
this year," he said, adding that the contract implied the delivery of 16
MiG-29K to India.
The MiG-29K is a multi-role jet of generation 4++ intended to provide
air defense to warships, to ensure air supremacy and to destroy land- and
sea-based targets with high-precision guided weapons day and night, in any
weather patters.
The experimental jet made its first flight in January 2007, while the
first serial jet took off in March 208.
The jets will be based on the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier (the
former Admiral Gorshkov) purchased by India from Russia.
Rosoboronexport and the Indian Navy signed the aircraft carrier
contract in New Delhi on January 20, 2004. It is planned to modernize the
ship and to equip it with advanced armaments, MiG-29K jets and anti-sub
reconnaissance helicopters Kamov Ka-27 and Ka-31.
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