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India ordered 42 Su-30MKI fighters from Russia

Moscow, Russia - Su-30MKI; negotiations on the modernisation of the models already being utilised

Last Friday, 16 December 2011, India purchased an additional batch of 42 Russian Su-30MKI fighters, which can be added to the 230 units ordered earlier valued 8.5 billion dollars. The new contract, valued 3.4 billion dollars, has been signed in the presence of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister; new deliveries should be completed in 2018. Thanks to...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1136432
Rome, Italy, 12/19/2011 16:25
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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