MOSCOW --- The first two Project 11356 frigates for India will be built in three years, Head of Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexei Rakhmanov told reporters on the sidelines of a TASS-hosted forum dubbed "Korea and Russia. Economic Cooperation Dialogue" on Friday. 
 

Mr. Apurva Chandra, Director General for Acquisition of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of India, is in his working visit to the Russian Federation in order to get familiarized with the production facilities of the Russian defence industry enterprises and to conduct negotiations on promising projects of the military and technical cooperation between the two countries. 
 

PANAJI, India --- With major public sector shipyards tied up in executing current orders, the ministry of defence has turned to Vasco-based Goa Shipyard Ltd to collaborate with Russia's United Ship Building to build guided-missile stealth frigates for the Indian Navy, which are likely to be armed with BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles. 
 

MOSCOW --- Russia has to focus on the construction of corvettes and frigates armed with high-precision guided missiles in the near future, a source in the military-defense complex told TASS. 

BENAULIM, Indian state of Goa --- Russia and India signed several agreements in the military-technical sphere, including for supplies of S-400 Triumph air defense systems, the production of frigates of project 11356 for the Indian Navy, and the creation of an Indian-Russian joint venture to manufacture Ka-226T helicopters. 
 

EURONAVAL is one of the largest naval exhibitions in the world. Russia has taken active part in it since 1996 when the exhibition became an international event. "At EURONAVAL 2016, we will hold the pre-arranged meetings with the official delegations and representatives of business circles of the European countries, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia-Pacific Region. We reasonably believe that the countries in these regions having long coastlines are interested today in Russian-made naval systems. Therefore Rosoboronexport will showcase more than 130 pieces of hardware at the exhibition, covering the entire spectrum of naval equipment and weapons. Many of them have been successfully tested under real combat conditions,” said Evgeny Odintsov who heads the Rosoboronexport delegation.

KALININGRAD, October 17. /TASS/. Russia’s newly-built frigate The Admiral Makarov has left the Baltic Sea for the Northern Fleet, where in it will undergo government certification tests in the Barents Sea, the press-secretary of the Baltic shipbuilding plant Yantar, Sergey Mikhailov has told TASS. "The Admiral Makarov is currently on the way from the Baltic Sea to the Arctic. Its weapon systems will undergo testing at the Northern Fleet’s testing ranges," Mikhailov said. The Admiral Makarov left the port of Baltiisk on Sunday, October 16. Starting from October 7 it underwent trials in the Baltic Sea.

BENAULIM, October 15. /TASS/. Russia and India signed on Saturday a range of agreements in the military and technical area. Among them are deals on supplies of S-400 Triumf missile systems, manufacturing frigates of Project 11356 for India’s Navy and establishment of a joint company on building Ka-226T helicopters.