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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Made-for-India MiG-29 test flight next week

Mig-29 BaazJust before President Vladimir Putin comes visiting India next week, Russia plans to conduct the "inaugural flight" of the aircraft carrier-borne MiG-29 fighter jets being produced for India.

Through the sonic boom generated by the MiG-29, Russia intends to send a strong message that it's keen to retain the edge over other countries in supplying military hardware and software to India despite deep inroads being made by Israel, France and now increasingly, the US.

India, after all, intends to spend a whopping $30 billion on weapon imports during the 11th Plan (2007-2012) period. By notching up defence deals worth over $20 billion between 1998 and 2005, India has already emerged as the largest arms importer in the developing world.

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