India Seeks Rapid Purchase Of 33 Russian Fighter Jets In Response To Chinese Border Fight

Originally appeared at ZeroHedge

India is reportedly seeking to beef up military purchases from Russia following last week’s major border incident with China that resulted in 20 Indian Army troops killed, and an undisclosed number of Chinese PLA casualties in the disputed Galwan Valley area of East Ladakh.

Indian government sources were cited in New Delhi-based ANI News Agency as saying “the Indian Air Force (IAF) has pushed a proposal to the government for acquiring 33 new fighter aircraft, including 21 MiG-29s and 12 Su-30MKIs from Russia.”

India Seeks Rapid Purchase Of 33 Russian Fighter Jets In Response To Chinese Border Fight

Indian Air Force Su-30 MKI multirole fighter aircraft, via Economic Times.

“The Air Force has been working on this plan for a while, but the process took a faster curve, and a 600-crore (about 787.4 million dollars) offer will be submitted to the Ministry of Defense for final approval this week,” the report continued.

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lovethemapples

Su30 is a good machine. But Mig29 against China? Those birds fall down without an enemy

JIMI JAMES

so does f15s,so!

occupybacon

They have a chance only if they buy them with the pilots included.

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Crush them India.

JIMI JAMES

Indians nag like old hags,problematic gonna need more than russia avionics to serve nwo/cia,
good start woulf be sco/brics(period)

Kamīrusan

No one has faith in Mig-35 huh ? instead they chose the old Mig-29…

Patriotic Indian

Su 30, 35, 57, MiG 29, 35 are all useless junk