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I literally never heard about that before. I always thought that India and the USA would be natural partners because we're both democracies, compared with Pakistan which was a brutal dictatorship and is still pretty repressive.
I'm only now learning about their history during the cold war, when India had a Russian-inspired economy and was close with Russia, so the USA decided to be friends with Pakistan.
Considering that Pakistan is now allied to China, that worked out just swimmingly...
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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. >

India has been in three major wars. Two with pakistan and one with China. >

Since when? 1947? They have had one “major” war since the 1970s, the Kargil war, which only lasted 60 days. About 1000 casualties for both sides. 
The rest have been internal insurgency, or minor border clashes with Pakistan and China, oftentimes literally with fists or clubs. >

1962 lost to China , 1967 won against China
1965 won against Pakistan, 1971won against Pakistan, 1999won against Pakistan. 
Post WW2 biggest Tank Battle happened bw India and Pakistan, till last year. Largest Human Surrender post WW2  90,000 soldiers happened in 1971 when Pakistani soldiers surrendered to India, till next year hopefully. 
That's 5 more wars than on US Soil post WW2 >

I’m not supporting India but keep in mind their allegiance to Russia may be because Russia (and Soviet) always had their backs. When the US and UK tried to help Pakistan expand their borders, Russia did send an entire naval fleet w/ a nuclear sub to scare them off.