Russia and India intend to reach a **** understanding on the process of sending troops, warships and military aircraft to each other. According to this agreement, each side can send, to the other, more than five warships, more than 10 warplanes and more than 3,000 troops. Also, the process of entry of troops, security, provision of shelter, medical assistance, and maintenance of equipment was stipulated. Military cooperation began.
Prior to this the type of cooperation between Russia and India in the arms trade involved a wide range of equipment on land, sea and air.
Much of the state-of-the-art equipment and advanced military technology that Russia has supplied to India is unique even at the international level. Russia is the only country in the world that is willing to sell its secrets in cooperation with India in the sensitive field of military technology.
Russia's close engagement with India also demonstrates Russia's ? Eurasianism? complex. Becoming a major Eurasian power across two continents remains an irresistible temptation for Russia. In the long run, Russia wants to normal access in the Indian Ocean in the future, but also need to make good relations with India. Some Russians say that one day our soldiers will be washing their boots in the Indian Ocean.
India, for its part, also needs to take advantage of Russia's status as a nuclear power and a permanent member of the Security Council to gradually realize its own ideals of great power. The signing of this agreement also opens the way for Russia to set up bases in India.
Through the establishment of good relations of cooperation with the Indian Navy, so that Russia in Europe and the Far East, the Black Sea and Pacific Fleet to carry out cross-regional activities, can have a relatively stable foothold. Getting the role of a nexus supply.
Overall, this is a geostrategic victory for Russia. On the basis of the Sino-Russian strategic partnership, coupled with the Russian-Indian alliance, so that Russia's gaming weight against the United States increased, ? so that Russia's influence on the Indian Ocean and the Middle East increases. India will be more emboldened on the border issue, but in view of the Sino-Russian strategic partnership, the Russian army will not intervene in the border issue, but the difficulty of resolving the border issue peacefully has increased.