MOSCOW – Russia is prepared to provide a wide range of anti-aircraftweapons and military equipment, which have been successfully tried in realconditions, to India, Director General of the Russian state arms exporterRosoboronexport Alexander Mikheev said on Friday.

“Russia is ready to supply widest range of armament and military equipmentfor the air defense forces of India, including anti-aircraft missile weaponsystems and electronic warfare systems, equipment connected with them,defense systems for the most important objects and large administrativecenters, as well as many other items.

And the Russian defense complexes against aircraft and missiles have beensuccessfully tested in real conditions of large-scale warfare, provingthemselves to be efficient weapons for confident undertaking of the mostchallenging operations,” Mikheev said during the ongoing visitof the Indian defence ministry delegation to Russia.

Russia is a leader in the field of development and production of all themost up-to-date air defense systems and complexes, Indian DefenseMinistry’s Director General Apurva Chandra stated as the Indian delegationvisited the site of North-Western Regional Centre (NWRC) of the Almaz –Antey Corp., which is a unique defense and industry innovationtechnological park, located in St. Petersburg.

Russia and India have long been cooperating in the defense area. InJanuary, Rosoboronexport said that the two countries carried out nearly 100joint research and development projects in the defence industry.