or the Russian side so deviant to promise then not deliver the specific armor array. If he has firm evidence of this blatant lying by the Russian people, I would love to see it.
If it was agreed in the contract then Russia would not have a leg to stand on and India could sue, or demand satisfaction.
The fact that they can't claim breach of contract clearly shows that the transfer of such things wasn't stipulated in the contract.
If anything the Indians have a reputation for being careful and very complete and never rushed with their contract negotiations.
If they wanted the Gorshkov so rapidly then taking 5 years to agree and sign a contract would mean things could have started in 2002 instead of 2005 and things would have been much quicker and cheaper because the increase in materials costs didn't happen till after 2006 and they would have gotten more done.
Obviously it still would not have gotten in on time as they still would have found it to be in a worse state than they expected when they cracked it open, but I laugh at critics who suggest the Russians should have bourne that extra cost.
When you buy a house and do a little routing maintainence and find the wiring and plumbing are in a critical state, you don't just patch up the wall and pretend everything is just fine before you hand it over to the new owners, because while you save a lot of money by not fixing it... and you don't have to live there so the power outages and fires caused by faulty wiring, not to mention the leaks and flooding caused by old pipes will be something the owner will have to live with... they will come to hate the house.
Personally I think the Russians would have been better off to cancel the deal and keep the carrier for themselves.
Regarding Armour in India, they really need to make a few decisions regarding their tank force as the cost of the T-90MS should make things interesting. It is twice the cost of the older T-90S, yet it is an obvious direct improvement over the base model... especially the new electronics including communications and battle management stuff, though the effect of this equipment is amplified if it is also present in other vehicles too. This means upgraded T-72s as a large body of good tanks, plus T-90S as a more expensive but more capable numbers tank, plus the indigenous quality tank, or breakthrough tank.
The problem is when the T-90MS arrives and is rather more expensive than the T-90S... the question they have to ask themselves is... is this worth the extra cost and do we need the extra capabilities right now, or do we wait 5-10 years when the T-90MS is much cheaper and use it as an upgrade path for the T-90S then.
If they buy 500 T-90MS tanks now, they will have 500 tanks with battle management systems... adding these to the T-90S will require turret enlargements and basically T-90MS upgrades that they might decide don't add enough capability for the cost.
If their T-72 upgrades include BMS then it might work, though they might find their new T-90MS tanks and old T-72 tanks are better able to cooperate than their T-90S tanks.
I assume the Arjun II has a BMS system that could be made compatible with the T-90S and T-72.