LOOOL Thought i have been telling Indians on here about their so called 'best friend' Russia?There are no Friends in politics mates only Interests, and unfortunately for India today, Russia interests doesnt match much with India's at all, The only interests Russia has with India is a buyer-seller relationship and thats it. So since Russia has noticed that India is slowly but surely moving closer to the west/U.S /Israel its getting more and more nervous/angry as it wont be having any more arm deals/dollars from India as it used to in the past when it was India undipsuted Patron/Master, and unfortunately for Russia things will only get worse with each passing year. I can bet that in about 15-20years from now Russia will be a minor player in India's defence industry. The main players will be from the west/U.S/ Israel and maybe Japan. So Russia has rightly noticed this inevitable trend and is trying to delay this as best as it can, by trying to make India even more dependent on it, so this involves not transfering its top notch tech to India(even if it was specified in contracts they signed that they have to.lol) so it can keep India dependent like it hads been for the most past of its existence since it got independence from us.
So this is indeed an interesting situation, since in a few decades from now, Russia will have even less or no common interest with India at all(the last one of which is defence deals, which will be almost gone by then). So naturally it will have no leverage over India as India moves naturally closer to the west/U.S/Israel/Japan with whom its interests match more and who can all offer better deals/tech to india than Russia ever can. So India should move on and forge closer defence links with western/U.S/Japanese/israelis companies like it has been doing these past years, But even more so, it should invest more in its own R&D and create its own defence industry through which it can source its own critical weapons moving forward. Afterall, its never a good thing to rely on the good will of other foreign powers (even if they are your 'best friend.lol.). Only look after your interests, everything else comes secondary(Moscow included.
), else India will keep on lagging even more behind than it already is relative to its giant/bigger neighbour to the north. Time will only make things worse for it if it doesnt get it acts together by then.
India's import from Russia are bound to decrease, but due to growing indigenous capability of India, not imports.
India has very good chance to catch up with Russian design capability in 20 years. LCA mkII would be as good a plane as Gripen E/F, which means that India would have no need to buy Migs. India already manufactures all type of Naval ships including Aircraft carriers ( Gorkshov was our last Foreign Carrier ), has successfully tested it's own AWACS recently.And has indigenous Air to Air, Surface to air missiles, Has recently test fired a 1000Km range Cruise missile. India's BMD system is better than that of Russia ( even though India uses Israeli radar ).
In a couple of decades India would only require to import some cutting edge technologies. This would be biggest factor in decreasing armament import from Russia.
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