India to buy 300 tanks from Russia

MOSCOW, FEB. 2. India is to buy at least 300 T-90S tanks from Russia, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday quoting officials at the Chelyabinsk factory that produces them.

A contract is to be signed shortly after negotiations take place in New Delhi between the Indian authorities and Russia's State enterprise for arms sales, Rosvooruzhenye.Interfax said that the T-90S tank was tested by the Indian military in 1998.

Mr. Ilya Klebanov, Russia's Deputy Premier in charge of the military-industrial complex, said Russia could export more than $4 billion worth of arms in 2000, a record since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

``Exchanges with China and India represented more than 50 per cent of the volume of military trade with Russia,'' Mr. Klebanov said, after a Government Committee met to adopt a plan for developing military exchanges up to 2010.

- AFP

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