Indian costs for Russian weapons are ridiculous. They ignore your own procurement contracts. Check out the Klub missile contract.
India plans to buy missile systems from Russia and the United States for roughly $200 million. Accordingly, more than 20 Klub anti-ship cruise missiles (the
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The MKI cost India $62m each and that's an old outdated plane. The figure of $1m is not realistic in any world for a 4.3 ton missile with a nose radar.
Russian costs in India are dependent on old costs that we signed in USD. So even though the ruble has weakened, we cannot benefit from it.
So, if we bought the MKI in 2000 was $22.5M, inflation has been applied to it over the years and what you see in the end is an inflated cost. Also, the final Indian cost includes a lot of electronics that were not part of the original contract. It's not going to Russia. It's the same with the Klub and Kaliber missiles, which were all signed before 2014, when ruble was 35 to a dollar, and we could not benefit from the collapse.
Otoh, FGFA was supposed to benefit, which is why the price dropped from $5.5B at 35 rubles to $3.7B at 65 rubles. So the ruble value actually increased, but the cost to India decreased drastically in terms of USD. Russia was supposed to get paid 193B rubles, but that got jacked up to 241 rubles, but in dollar terms India saved $1.8B. I'm sure the S-400 deals benefited from the collapse, the Chinese and Turks definitely did.
In simple terms, new order = new price in USD, old order = old price in USD + inflation.
It's because of the old prices and the limitations of our procurement rules that the Russians give a lot of value to the Indian market.
Ballistic missiles of that size tend to be cheaper than CMs like the Kaliber and Tomahawk. India's new Pralay missile, an Iskander class costs $700k, and it has 3 stages and comes wtih a MaRV. Also, India's longest range missile, Agni V, which is said to be an ICBM in disguise, costs $6M. Russian stuff is cheaper than ours after their ruble collapse.
It isn't just a conversion, it's an interceptor that's no longer capable as an interceptor. Do some research on the MiG-31K.
It doesn't matter. We have modified 40 Su-30MKIs to crry Brahmos-A and those come with flight limitations as well. Only a handful of Mig-31s have been modified to carry Kinzhal. The costs associated with it won't be a big deal.
He said 6 months for Donetsk and Luhansk. As regards 3 years for everything east of the river....
What crap. Read the soruces yourself.
No, they have shut it down to Russian aggression. If Russia enters those countries now, NATO will stamp them out, and their nuclear threats will be ignored because they ignored ours.
It won't be the Russians doing it, it will be the Libyans, Syrians, Sudanese and Iranians. Perhaps even the Afghans and Yemenis.
