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Russia,India to sign contract for sketching 5th generation jet soon

“We are in the process of negotiations. They will be completed in the near future and we shall ink a contract for the technical sketch project of this plane then,” Pogosian said, adding that such major undertakings were very time-consuming.



This is one of the reasons why the contract was not signed during Vladimir Putin’s visit to India, he added.

On February 16 Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko said that a Russian-Indian project for jointly developing a fifth generation fighter would enter into the active implementation phase this year.



Russia and India, he said, “are starting joint work on this product being well aware that they will share the copyrights.”

Also, Khristenko said that the parties would share benefits from selling the plane not only on their domestic markets, but also on the markets of third countries.



“This is an unprecedented situation. India is the sole country with which we have decided to establish such partnership,” Khristenko said.