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India has been in three major wars. Two with pakistan and one with China.
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In particular, the Indian-russian joint venture "Indo-Russian Rifles Private Ltd." has completed the production of its first batch of AK-203 automatic rifles, Janes reports.
The first 70,000 rifles should have up to 70% of Indian components, and the figure must grow up to 100% afterwards.
On a side note, we should remark that the building of the plant for making russian rifles began back in 2007, but due to some problems, it opened with a delay in 2019.


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A 12 year delay? Wow. >

For a country with seemingly no safety measures, too. >

Reading between the lines here, this seems like a licencing deal more than anything else.
These are Indian AKs (initially with some Russian parts), built in India for the Indian army...
Russia is still profiting, but at least the arms aren't going to Russia itself... at least on paper... >

This has been in the works since 2019. It's not a new thing. And it was concluded before the war began.  
As much as I hate this deal - since it reeks of corruption (they railroaded all attempts at indigenization and still bought some 150k SIGs anyway which is a different round - which means two sets of optics and other accessories) it's not much of a military cooperation. >

Indias military logistics must be a fucking nightmare. The sheer size of the country, along with their mix of western and Russian equipment. Doesn’t sound like fun. 
Luckily most of Indias modern conflicts have been fist fights in Kashmir lol.