Russia prepares to fly out troops for joint drill with India
Subir Sen
Oct. 9, 2005

Russia and India about start historic and strategic joint military excercise.

Loading of three Il-76 military transport planes which are to take Russian landing forces, military hardware, equipment and supplies to the area of the first Russian-Indian exercises, Indra 2005, in India, began at Kresty airfield near Pskov today.

As Russian air force commander-in-chief Army Gen Vladimir Mikhaylov told journalists today, "military transport aviation planes are to transport to India more than 100 servicemen from the Pskov Division of Airborne Troops, three BMD-2 airborne fighting vehicles and more than 20 tonnes of military equipment and supplies". "The planes are scheduled to fly out to India on Sunday [9 October]. They are to make one technical stopover during the flight," the general said.

"The joint antiterrorist exercises involving the navies and airborne troops of the Russian and Indian armed forces will take place from 10 to 19 October in the Indian Ocean and on the Mahajan range (in the state of Rajasthan, India)," an ITAR-TASS correspondent was told at the Russian Federation Defence Ministry.

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