Casting a fresh round of uncertainty in Indo-Russian defence ties www.nikefreedeutschland.net, the chief of Russia's armed forces told a newspaper that Russia would commission the nuclear submarine Nerpa rather than lease it to India."The sum of $650-780 million, which Rosoboronexport and the Amur Shipbuilding Plant had negotiated over a long period of time with the Indian Ministry of Defense, will now be found in Russia, either within the state weapons procurement program or somewhere else www.canadagoosesjackor.info," the Rossiiskaya Gazeta quoted General Nikolai Makarov as saying.India and Russia signed a secret $ 650 million lease for the unfinished Soviet-era nuclear powered attack submarine Nerpa in 2004. Russia also trained two Indian crews to man the submarine at a specially constructed facility near St Petersburg.While both sides have consistently denied plans to lease the submarine www.abercrombieetfitchfr.com, only navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta confirmed that the submarine was being leased to train Indian crews.While the submarine was undergoing sea trials in the sea of Japan on November 8 www.pumasportcipo.com, a crew member accidentally released Freon gas into the submarine killing 20 crew including 17 shipyard personnel.Stating that the lease of the submarine was on track-an Indian crew is to take the submarine over in March next year-a senior naval official who did not want to be named wondered if General Makarov's statement was a bargaining ploy meant to raise the cost of the 10-year-long lease of the submarine.In an identical scenario last week, Sevmash shipyard officials demanded an additional $ 2 billion for the Admiral Gorshkov. An unnamed defence official said it could be handed over to the Russian navy if India did not pay the extra money.Russia had initially offered India two Akula-2 submarines, both laid down at the Amursky Zavod shipyard at Komsomolsk-on-Amur by the Soviet Union www.saboohrringe.com, pre-1991 but on which construction had been suspended due to lack of funds. India took up only the second hull which was around 60 per cent complete.  "If the Russians want a submarine they should try and complete the second unfinished hull which we did not take www.ektecanadagoose.com," said a defence official. Russia has publicly expressed plans to rebuild its navy into its Soviet-era blue water fleet with nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines and six aircraft carriers.Related Topics Articles：

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