Russia offers India to partake in a joint development programme for a tank based on the Armata Universal Combat Platform

On the 28th December, Russia had offered India to partake in a joint development programme for a main battle tank that was based on the Armata Universal Combat platform, especially the T-14 Armata, stated Valeria Reshetnikova, press secretary of the FSMTC (Федеральной службы по военно-техническому сотрудничеству) in an interview with RIA Novosti.

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(In Russian)
"В ходе недавно проведенной российско-индийской межправительственной комиссии по военному и военно-техническому сотрудничеству и российско-индийского саммита индийским партнерам были предложены новые направления работы, в том числе и создание по техническим заданиям заказчика бронетанковой техники на базе платформы "Армата", тем более, учитывая, что индийские военные планируют развернуть работу по созданию нового основного боевого танка."
(In English)
"During the recently held Russian-Indian intergovernmental commission on military and military-technical cooperation and the Russian-Indian summit, Indian partners were offered new areas of work, including the creation of armored vehicles based on the customer's specifications on the Armata platform, especially given that the Indian military is planning to expand work on the creation of a new main battle tank."

The rest of the interview with RIA Novosti can be read here, in Russian.

T-14 Armata on the Zvenigorodskoe highway in Moscow during the night rehearsal for the 76th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War.


Sources: Twitter had led me to "VPK"

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