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Kadakin said: "We are interested that India should be
strong, not only industrially and economically...It is
becoming very strong, economically and we are rejoicing
together with our Indian friends. But we also want India to be
strong militarily."
To a query on the Military Technical Commission
meeting that Antony and Serdyukov attended in New Delhi
recently, he said they had discussed many proposals and
agreements for future bilateral defence relations.
"You may ask Americans are coming, French are coming,
many other countries are coming. But we are not worried.
Because we have a very deep-rooted, long established and very
functional and very positive cooperation between the
militaries of the two countries," he said.
Pointing out to Indra-2010 joint military exercise, he
said it was also "an indication of the high degree of
confidnece and trust we have in eachother and trust that we
also exercise in combating international terrorism."
"As I said before, we are not only friends, we are
allies in combating international terrorism. You know, I will
not name any counry, you know from where it comes in your
vicinity. We also suffer from those people who bring harm to
India, we also suffer from those people who bring harm to
India, they also bring harm to Russia," he added.
Asked about the recent important military deals such
as the P-8I maritime patrol plane and C-130J transport
aircraft going the US way, the Ambassador asked Indians to
look at what Moscow had done.
"Look what we did for India, together with Israel. We
produced AWACS planes and we have a product of three countries
-- India, Russia and Israel. So the world is changing. Well, I
don't know, but America does not have the technology of
BrahMos. If they start Sunday, it will take them seven years
to produce what Russia and India are producing Sunday. I don't
think that they have given any vital technologies, you know,"
he said.
BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile, considered the
best in the world, designed and produced joint by India and
Russia.
India had recently got delivery of an Airborne Early
Warning and Control Systems (AWACS), a beyond horizon airborne
radar of Israeli origin on Russian IL-76 platform, of which
three have been ordered and two more are to added in the
future.
Whereas, "they (Americans) have given USD 2 billion
aid to rearm Pakistan just before the visit of their boss
(President Obama) to India. That's what I read. What we are
giving to India, we are not giving to anyone.
"Even the Sukhois (fighter jets) that China is
producing (with licence from Russia) is very much different
from what Sukhoi (IAF's frontline combat planes) India is
producing with licence from us," he said. PTI NCB
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