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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Indian president’s flight on Su-30MKI shows trust in Russian hardware

Su-30MKIIndian President Pratibha Patil’s flight on board the Su-30MKI fighter jet of Russian manufacture is “a worthy ending of the India Year in Russia and evidence of the Indian side’ s great confidence in Russian military hardware,” the general director of Russia’s arms exporting agency Rosoboronexport, Anatoly Isaikin, said on Wednesday about the unprecedented air trip the Indian head of state made on board a Russia-made supersonic jet.

“Our planes of the Su and MiG families are well-known to the military pilots of that country. Today’s event is yet another evidence of the steady onward progress in mutually beneficial military and technological cooperation between such strategic partners as India and Russia.

India has invariably been our strategic partner. I am certain that in the near future this cooperation will grow stronger and gain greater momentum,” Isaikin said.

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