What is your assessment of the Indian market for UAC’s business in 2019?

India has for a long time been one of Russia’s biggest partners, both in procuring aircraft and other munitions and in industrial cooperation. Continuing in 2019 and beyond we see this trend to remain. While we cannot speak about volumes of market and other parameters, we see opportunities not only in selling something, but rather in the frames of the ‘Make in India’ initiative.

Currently, there is a lot of focus on indigenised production of defence equipment. How do you plan to align yourself in this environment?

India and Russia share not only one of the longest and most successful cooperation histories but are destined to continue it with even more success as the two countries work to expand bilateral ties. Moreover, UAC and Russia are pioneers – as the ones that we