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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow on Sunday to ink billions of dollars of weapons deals and for talks on a landmark nuclear deal that could significantly widen atomic fuel imports from Russia. India, along with China, is one of Russia's biggest clients for arms sales but New Delhi has been upset in recent years by long delays in the delivery of a refurbished Soviet-era aircraft carrier under a $1.6 billion (9.72 million pounds) contract. The signing of arms deals and talks on a civilian nuclear deal to widen uranium fuel deliveries are set to...

Six years after American defence firms forayed into the Indian arms market after the lifting of US embargoes, a company is set to bag the first commercial deal for selling 197 light helicopters to the Army. After almost two years of evaluation, including trials at the world's highest battlefield on the Siachen glacier, the army has, according to highly placed sources, opted for Bell Helicopter's 407 Shen model in preference to EADS' Eurocopter. Though the army has given its technical evaluation to the defence ministry, the deal is yet to be cleared by the Defence Acquisition Council headed by Defence...

US offers Pakistan two naval frigates, P-3C Orions K J M Varma | September 01, 2005 14:21 IST The United States has offered to sell two Perry class naval frigates to Pakistan, besides providing eight long-range maritime patrol aircraft fitted with Harpoon missiles. The offer for sale 'has been made by the US Navy' and the price of the frigates will be negotiated once the US Congress gives its approval, Chief of Pakistan Navy Admiral Shahid Karimullah told reporters on Wednesday. Named after an American naval hero, Oliver Hazard Perry, the frigates were designed by the US in the 1970s as general-purpose...

Jerusalem asked Moscow not to go through with a sale of sophisticated weapons to Syria, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday, in the first public acknowledgement by Jerusalem that such a deal is being contemplated. "I passed this message on to the deputy Russian foreign minister [Alexander Saltanov], who visited the region recently. I passed on the message that Syria is a country that supports terror and transfers weapons to Hizbullah and that the whole world is working to isolate it. There is no reason why Russia should go against this trend. I hope that a satisfactory solution will be...

HARARE - President Robert Mugabe has ordered Z$10 billion worth of arms and anti-riot equipment from China, ZimOnline has learnt. Well-placed sources said Mugabe negotiated the arms supply deal when he met a joint delegation of government and private business representatives from Beijing in Harare two weeks ago. The Chinese delegation returned home last week. Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi, who helped Mugabe negotiate the deal, last night confirmed that the government held defence and trade talks with the Chinese. But he would not be drawn to disclose the details of the negotiations. Sekeramayi said: "There were discussions which centred on...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is trying to prevent an arms deal that would put high-tech U.S.-made air-to-air missiles on Jordanian aircraft, Israeli government and security officials said Sunday. Israel has asked Congress to delay approval of the deal, which is already in advanced stages, while Jewish-American lobbyists and Israeli officials press their case with the Bush administration, an Israeli government official said on condition of anonymity.

Oct. 10, 2003 India signs $1b PHALCON arms deal By ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI, India India, Israel and Russia on Friday signed an agreement for the US$1 billion sale of PHALCON airborne early warning systems to India, a defense official told The Associated Press. India's rival, Pakistan, has said the system would upset the balance of power in South Asia, where the two major powers have fought three wars since 1947 and now have nuclear weapons. The advanced Israeli-made PHALCON radar systems are to be fitted on converted Russian-made Ilyushin transport plane that India will purchase from Moscow. The deal,...

MOSCOW - Reaching out to improve relations with the United States, Russia's lower house of parliament ratified a landmark nuclear arms control treaty Wednesday that slashes the nuclear arsenals of both countries by two-thirds. The Duma voted 294-134 in favor of the so-called Moscow Treaty after a closed-door debate. President Vladimir Putin called the vote a "convincing ratification," Russian news agencies reported. Putin had urged lawmakers to ratify the treaty, calling it an "important document in the sphere of strategic stability." The U.S. Senate approved the accord in March, but the Duma delayed the vote amid Russian opposition to the...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  President Bush announced Monday that he will sign a landmark accord in Moscow this month to dramatically shrink American and Russian nuclear arsenals. "The treaty will liquidate the legacy of the Cold War," he said.</p> <p>Under the agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Cold War-era arsenals will be reduced to 1,700 to 2,200 warheads, Bush said.</p>

Fei Hung-po leads arms group to USDEFENSE NEEDS: High on the Taiwanese admiral's list will be finding a way to secure the 12 submarines the US agreed to provide the nation in earlier talks, but have yet to materializeBy Brian HsuSTAFF REPORTERA delegation led by Deputy Chief of the General Staff Admiral Fei Hung-po (¶OÂEªi) flew last weekend to the US to discuss arms procurement with the US military, defense sources said. The meeting is a temporary substitute for annual arms talks between the two countries, which came to an end last year. At last year's talks, the George W....