Why Is India Buying More Russian Air-to-Air Missiles?
Why is India ordering $700 million worth of missiles from Russia? One reason may be humiliation over Pakistan using long-range air-to-air missiles to shoot down an Indian fighter last February. Yet the purchase comes amid reports that of problems with Russian missiles. “Close to 300 short-range air-to-air missiles, the R-73, and 400 medium-range air-to-air guided missiles, the RVV-AE, also known as the R-77, have been ordered,” according to Indian newspaper The choice of the R-77 is interesting. It is the Russian equivalent of the ...
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