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| India to buy 3 Russian warships at $1.14 bln | |
| 2006-07-07 | |
| NEW DELHI - India, one of the worldÂ’s biggest arms importers, will buy three frigates for its navy from Russia for $1.14 billion, the Indian defence minister said on Thursday. Pranab Mukherjee said New Delhi would also buy 28 land attack Klub cruise missiles for its Russian-made submarines for $192 million. He told reporters after a meeting of the cabinet committee on security the first frigate would be delivered five years after the formal signing of an agreement. India has one of the worldÂ’s biggest navies with at least 25 warships and 16 submarines. Russia remains its biggest arms supplier, although New Delhi has diversified purchases in recent years, buying equipment from Israel, France and its new ally, the United States. In the federal budget for the year ending March, 2007, India increased spending for its 1.3-million-strong military 7 percent to 890 billion rupees ($19.3 billion).
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #8 The Indian Navy has more than 80 ships in service - about 45 larger surface combatants - Frigates and above. Base salary (before allowances) for the lowest ranking soldier is about 100 US dollars a month. An Lt base salary is about 250 US dollars a month |
| Posted by: john 2006-07-07 20:22 |
| #7 25 warships and 16 submarines. Sound like they need a lot of CONTRACTORS! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-07-07 14:47 |
| #6 Overstock.com |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-07-07 12:51 |
| #5 Maybe the price is high because support is bundled into the purchase? They sell Russian warships at Best Buy? |
| Posted by: Steve 2006-07-07 12:30 |
| #4 Maybe the price is high because support is bundled into the purchase? |
| Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck 2006-07-07 12:10 |
| #3 Those prices seem high, even with support equipment. For instance US LCS (3000 tons) are budgetted at $250M each and the latest Tomahawks were contracted at $600K each. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-07-07 08:35 |
| #2 the average Indian soldier can't be making more than about $3000 a year or so I would figure considerably less, still there's no shortage of volunteers. It's an all-professional force. John? |
| Posted by: 6 2006-07-07 07:22 |
| #1 STRATEGYPAGE.com reports that China has halted contruction of its Type 051C and other classes of Russian-derived/aided surface warships due to numrous probs. Time will tell iff the Indian Navy suffers a KURSK or other naval catastrophe. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-07-07 04:06 |