{"id":197718,"date":"2008-01-16T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/16\/further-indian-problems-with-russian-arms-deals\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T11:03:00","slug":"further-indian-problems-with-russian-arms-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/16\/further-indian-problems-with-russian-arms-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Indian Problems With Russian Arms Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Indian military has had a long history of using Soviet, and later Russian weapons systems, on the naval side things have been strained lately, with delays, under-performance, and cost overruns being the rule rather than the exception, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.india-defence.com\/reports\/3084\">Admiral Gorshokov\/Vikramaditya fiasco<\/a> being most prominent.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Indian Navy has <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseindustrydaily.com\/return-to-sender-india-rejects-kiloklub-sub-missile-upgrades-04581\/#more\">rejected the recently upgraded Kilo class submarines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This appears to have been driven by integration issues with the Klub-S 3M-54E1 (SS-N-27 Sizzler) anti-ship\/land attack missiles, which failed to strike the targets in tests.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this will effect the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/india-launches-contest-for-126-new.html\">massive medium fighter buy<\/a> planned by the Indian AF, as the problems at this point seem to be limited to naval equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Indian military has had a long history of using Soviet, and later Russian weapons systems, on the naval side things have been strained lately, with delays, under-performance, and cost overruns being the rule rather than the exception, with the Admiral Gorshokov\/Vikramaditya fiasco being most prominent. Now the Indian Navy has rejected the recently &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1180,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-missiles","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}