Indian troops join Russian military exercise despite U.S. concerns

Lt Col Charlie Brown As a Leader of the "Non-Aligned" Nations, India has always used/worked with/trained with both sides, Obtained Weapons from Both Sides and their Marriage of Different Equipments Always Made My Job as a Spook Very Entertaining!

What's wrong with eating from both sides, if they are readily willing to feed India, Lt Col Charlie Brown and PO1 William "Chip" Nagel? Please educate me.

India is designing, manufacturing, testing and commissioning indigenous ground, air and sea national defense assets, which will replace aging Russian acquisitions. The Tejas LCA Mk II will replace the Fishbeds, Mirages and even the MIG 29s and SU-30MKIs. The AMCA will be added advantage over Indian skies and across the Indian Ocean. The INS Vikrant has been commissioned into the Indian Navy as the first indigenous aircraft carrier. There is another aircraft carrier under planned or in development along with an advanced boomer.

CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana - Not a Damn Thing and by Doing So they can act as a Middle Man between the West and Russia and Often that is Needed!

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel, India, I think, is playing its cards very carefully by not antagonizing Russia, yet keeping the west hungry for alliances with India on a variety of trade agreements, to include military assets, wheat, IT and others.