Top Russian official says that news of Americans visiting Indian N-submarine is False

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11/13/2017, 13:15
Source: Kommersant
The head of FSVTS called the information about the admission of Americans on a submarine in India a lie
The Chairman of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia, Dmitry Shugaev, said that information about admission of specialists from the United States to the Russian-made submarine Chakra in India is a lie. "We will by no means be succumbed to these provocations," Mr. Shugayev said on the air of the Rossiya 24 television channel.

He also said that after the lifting of sanctions from India, a serious struggle for the military equipment market of this country began. "The agents try to smuggle us out of there with all the truths and crooks, but India is a strategic partner for us, and the entire country and top management of India also consider us strategic partners," the head of the FSVTS (quoted by RIA Novosti) said.

Last week the site Strategypage,com reported that Moscow suspected Delhi of admitting US Navy representatives to the Russian nuclear submarine of Project 971I, which since 2011 is operated by the Indian Navy.

 

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The media reports that the representatives of the US naval forces allegedly visited the nuclear submarine Chakra-2, which Russia transferred to India in leasing, are untrue and are "thrown in". This was stated by Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia.

 

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Moscow brands as ‘bogus’ report that US military was allowed on India’s Russian-made submarine
Published time: 13 Nov, 2017 13:21

Reports of India allowing a group of US military officials to visit the Russian-made INS Chakra – an Indian Navy attack submarine – are not based in reality, the head of the Russian military cooperation agency said.

Claims of a rift in Russian-Indian military cooperation were reported last week by the defense news website StrategyPage, and circulated in Russia by business daily Kommersant. The report claimed that India had allowed a group of US Navy personnel to visit the Russian-made Chakra attack submarine, in violation of the lease contract. The nuclear-powered Chakra was transferred to the Indian Navy in 2012 after serving for three years under the name Nerpa in Russia.

Commenting on the claim on Monday, Dmitry Shugaev, the head of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, called the report “bogus.”

“We will not respond to such provocations,” he told Rossiya 24. “Somebody is trying by all [sorts] of tricks to push us out, but India remains our strategic partner. And Indian people and its leadership see us as their strategic partners,” he explained.

India is currently one of world’s biggest arms buyers, investing heavily in the modernization of its armed forces. Russia is a traditional provider of sophisticated military hardware for Delhi, building aircraft and naval ships of designs adopted for India’s requirements. The two countries also cooperate on a number of high-profile joint defense projects, like the ramjet supersonic BrahMos cruise missile.


Source: RT/Russia Today.