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MOSCOW, Sunday (PTI)

In tune with growing collaborations among western nations in defence sector, India and Russia are on the path to jointly work in cutting edge defence projects, Indian Ambassador to Moscow, Krishnan Raghunath, said.

"The principle has been established and we have a future," Raghunath said in an interview published by 'Indian Defence Review' (IDR) quarterly in its latest issue.

"Certain areas in the defence sector for further R and D are being discussed with India," he affirmed.

Raghunath also dispelled notions that discussions on jointly developing the fifth generation fighter were taking inordinately long.

He gave the example of the first Indo-Russian collaboration in cutting edge technology, the supersonic Brahmos missile. Work on developing the missile started in 1995 and the first test took place only after six years.

Ambassador Raghunath pointed out that Indo-Russian defence partnership was in tune with the growing trend of collaborations among western countries on major defence projects.

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