India, Russia defense talks successful
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, June 18, IRNA
India-Russia-Defense Talks
Talks between India and Russia on a wide range of issues, including long-term defense projects with Deputy Prime Minister and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov have been very successful, announced Indian Defense Secretary Shekhar Dutt.
Dutt said that Ivanov was upbeat on Indo-Russian defense relationship adding that they had 'very purposeful and useful talks on a whole range of issue' Doordarshan News said here on Sunday.
He, however, did not divulge the details of his parleys, saying that Indo-Russian defense cooperation had many long-term programs and their implementation was reviewed during his talks with Ivanov.
Dutt was on a four-day Russia visit during which he visited St.
Petersburg and Severodvinsk to review progress on the upgradation of Kiev class aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov acquired by India.
He said that Russia is scheduled to deliver the ship in the autumn of 2008 along with deck-based MiG-29k fighters.
Dutt had detailed discussion on the Gorshkov upgradation with St.
Petersburg-based Nevsky Design Bureau, the brain behind making the last century's warship into a formidable man-of-war of the 21st century.
Dutt said that Gorshkov had undergone so many changes that its old designers would not be able to recognize it. "It would be a totally new, a unique aircraft carrier."
He said he was impressed by the work being done at the Sevmash naval shipyard in Severodvinsk.
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