Russia Receives India's Request For Additional Batch Of Ka-31 Helicopters - Official

Russia has received from India a request for an additional batch of the Ka-31 helicopters for the country's Navy, the head of the Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation, Dmitry Shugayev, has said. India's Economic Times newspaper reported earlier this spring that the Indian Navy would purchase six more Ka-31 helicopters from Russia. The Indian Navy uses the helicopters for radar surveillance. "We have recently received a request for an additional delivery of Ka-31 naval helicopters," Shugayev told the National Defense magazine. He expressed hope that Russia would implement by the end of the year the contract for delivering the Igla-S portable surface-to-air missile to India, and organizing its licensed production in the country. "We do not exclude an additional delivery of the MiG-29UPG. We will certainly participate in India's tender for 110 multi role fighter jets," Shugayev said.