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In the international arms trade market, Russia can be said to be a mixed "wind and water" with the family foundation left by the former Soviet Union, and among the many international buyers in Russia, India is undoubtedly the most noticeable one.
Because India has a high dependence on Russia for military imports, more than 70% of its weapons and equipment come from Russia, and even the Indian Navy's ace Akura-class nuclear submarines are leased from Russia.
Leased to India's Akula-class submarines
According to common sense, in the face of such a big customer as India, Russia should be careful and caring, after all, it is the father of the gold lord, but it is comfortable to serve!
However, Russia does not play cards according to common sense, and with India's high dependence on its own arms, it frequently treats India as a fool.
Internationally, everyone knows the principle of harmony and wealth and peace, so why does Russia treat India in this way? It all starts with the history of the two countries and the many military export deals.
Since the 1950s, the former Soviet Union has provided a lot of assistance to India, and 102 steel projects have been invested and built in India alone, completing the national industrial infrastructure for India.
In addition to industrial projects, the Former Soviet Union also provided nearly 14 billion rubles of loan assistance to India, which was worth about $15 billion at the exchange rate at the time, which was the time of the 1980s and 1990s.
After the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Russia, which inherited its legal system, was subject to sanctions from the Western world, the economy was sluggish, and its currency depreciated, while India took advantage of the worst depreciation of the ruble to easily exchange for more than 14 billion rubles with only a few million dollars, and then found Russia to repay the money.
At that time, Russia had been overwhelmed by the economic sanctions of the United States, and it had no intention of tangling with India on the exchange rate problem, so it swallowed its anger and ate a dumb loss.
India's ungrateful approach is undoubtedly a downfall to Russia, so Russia also hates India to the bone because of this matter, and after recovering some vitality, it began to plan a pit against India.
You know, Russia not only inherited the international status of the former Soviet Union, but also inherited the huge amount of weapons and equipment of the former Soviet Union, and one of them is the aircraft carrier Gorshkov, but this aircraft carrier is not as useful as the Varyag.
At that time, the aircraft carriers of the former Soviet Union relied entirely on boilers to start, and the Gorshkov became a scrapped aircraft carrier after only 7 years of service in the Soviet maritime army due to manufacturing defects and other reasons.
Gershkov
Although Russia's military strength is not as good as that of the former Soviet Union, but looking at the world, there is really no one in the world except the United States, so this aircraft carrier has no meaning to Russia.
Therefore, at this time, Russia wanted to sell the Gorshkov aircraft carrier and exchange it for money to restore the domestic economy.
As for who to sell to? Russia immediately thought of an ungrateful India, and then had a clever plan and shouted to India: Friend, give you an aircraft carrier, do you want it? Don't talk about money, talk about money hurts feelings.
After Hearing this news, India could not believe that there was a good thing in the world to send aircraft carriers for free, but it could be said that it was happy to blossom, and it accepted the gift of Russia without thinking about it.
At this time, Russia began its own performance!
First of all, I said to India, because the aircraft carrier is a previous retired aircraft carrier, there are still some fault problems, may not be able to drive from Russia to India, indicating that if India is willing, it can help India repair the Gershkov, but the maintenance cost of this aircraft carrier needs to be provided by India.
And Russia has repeatedly stressed: I am thinking about you, I am not asking for your money, but taking your money and repairing your aircraft carrier!
Russia proposed to India about $1 billion in maintenance costs, India did not think much, but also foolishly felt that the price is more cost-effective, did not bargain, still thinking in their hearts: Mao Zige is a loyal person!
When Russia saw India's reaction, it knew that India had taken the bait. So I continued to show my strength, saying that since the aircraft carriers have been repaired for you, how about we help you get some carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carriers? It's just a complete set, and it can also give you a discount.
You look at the sincerity of people in Russia, send plus send, for customers to fully consider, if you are India, good not to give more money?
Although this incident surprised India, but looking at Russia's sincerity, India also readily agreed to Russia's proposal, and finally signed an agreement to repair the aircraft carrier and sell the carrier aircraft for a total price of 1.5 billion US dollars.
The aircraft carrier Gorshkov is being repaired
According to the agreement between the two countries, after four years India can send someone to drive away the Gershkov aircraft carrier.
But after four years in a flash, when India sent people to Russia to check the improvement of the Gorshkov aircraft carrier, it was surprised to find that the aircraft carrier in front of it was no different from the scrapped state of four years ago, and India began to wonder if Russia had taken itself to the wrong aircraft carrier.
At this time, Russia continued to exert its own performance talent, telling India that because it had underestimated the cost of aircraft carrier modification and maintenance, the price on the previous contract was completely insufficient to bring the Gorshkov aircraft carrier back to life, and if India still wanted this aircraft carrier, it would need to provide a part of the money to support the maintenance progress.
Of course, Russia also very sincerely told India that if it feels that the price is unreasonable, it can not be provided, but the previous money will not be returned to India because it has been spent on aircraft carrier maintenance and refurbishment.
Schematic diagram of the aircraft carrier Gorshkov
At this time, India realized that it could not get off the thief ship, because India had already delivered $1.5 billion before this, so it could only obediently provide money to Russia again.
After that, Russia didn't even bother to make up a new reason, and used the same excuse to ask India for money many times, and India did not dare not give it.
The Gershkov was repaired and refurbished by Russia for 10 years, and India spent more than $2.2 billion to bring the carrier back to its own country.
At this time, India has been pit by Russia to the point of not wanting to speak, although the aircraft carrier has done basic maintenance, it can also run, but it is no longer a product of this era, and the combat effectiveness is not comparable to the current aircraft carrier.
The carrier-based aircraft that originally spent a lot of money was also backward equipment, and the original Russian promised to India was a carrier-based aircraft of the same class as the United States F35B, but India found that it was not the case at all after receiving the cargo.
American F35B fighter
And because the Gershkov aircraft carrier is a small aircraft carrier, due to the size of the carrier-based aircraft take-off plate, the fighter jets purchased by India from the United States and France cannot take off from this aircraft carrier, that is to say, India must purchase supporting carrier-based aircraft from Russia in the future.
At this time, India was already crying without tears, and was deceived by Russia, and after that, due to the military implications of being held back by Russia, India, although unwilling, also had to continuously import weapons and equipment from Russia.
And Russia is also on the way to India, and has never been soft.
When Russia developed the Su-30, Russia itself did not have enough experimental data to determine whether this type of fighter was developed reasonably or stably, but it was directly exported to India, allowing the Indian Air Force to test for Russia.
Su-30 fighter three-view
That is to say, Russia regards India as its own guinea pig, and India also sends money to Russia.
In recent years, India has continued to spend the most expensive money to buy equipment from Russia. Just in 2018, when Russia sold S400 anti-aircraft missiles to India, it directly offered five sets of 6 billion US dollars, and the same equipment, China bought six sets and only spent 3 billion US dollars.
Russian S400 anti-aircraft missiles
Russia treats it so differently that India can only obediently buy it, and there is no way.
India has been pit by Russia for so many years, not without thinking of countermeasures, but also thought of changing to a country that imports military weapons, but the military weapons of European and American countries are exactly two or three times more expensive than those of Russia.
India thought about it, looked at his pocket again, or did not change it.
In fact, India was toyed with by Russia, but also because its military industry is too weak, for many years with the help of the former Soviet Union and the United States, it has never thought of independent research and development, so that it has not formed an independent research and development system until now.
This has also led to the fact that even if India wants to develop a fighter or armored vehicle, it will take thirty or forty years. Moreover, in many military exercises in India, it is common for local domestic fighter jets to fall, and if the pilots know that they have been assigned to Indian-made aircraft, they have written their last words overnight.
Indian fighter jets crashed
Constrained by various practical conditions, India has also had to turn to Russia.
In addition, because of the perennial use of Russian weapons, India's military weapons are also complete sets, including maintenance personnel and technology, which cannot be adjusted in a moment and a half.
And Russia has also seized the pain of India and constantly bullied India, but this can also be understood, who called India ungrateful and did such a down-to-earth thing to Russia.
Recently, various contradictions between Russia and India have finally broken out, because Russia and India have long-term close military relations, and not only that, but the two countries also have agreements to station troops.
However, while India is working closely with Russia, it has also signed logistical agreements with the United States and western countries, agreeing that U.S. troops and warships of Western countries will use India's ports.
This incident also made Russia very angry, so it decided to strengthen various cooperation with Pakistan, but India and Pakistan are sworn enemies who have not dealt with for many years, and such behavior has also made India feel dissatisfied.
The relationship between Russia and India is almost torn apart now, but India has always felt with a victim mentality that Russia has been poking him for money and working closely with his old rivals, but he has never thought about how unkind and unjust the things he has done are.
In addition, even if the face is really torn, Russia's loss is only a little profit from military exports, but what India loses may be difficult to measure, and the historical story between the two countries also makes us understand the importance of independent development of weapons.
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