Four new Sukhoi Su-34 multirole tactical bombers arrived at the Lipetsk-based Air Force Combat and Conversion Training Centre (CCTC) from the Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPO) on 28 December 2010. The aircraft were serialled 06, 07, 08 and 09 and became the first batch delivered under the five-year contract made in late 2008 by the Sukhoi company and Russian Defence Ministry for 32 aircraft of the type.

A ceremony was conducted at the Russian Army Aviation Combat and Conversion Training Centre (CCTC) in Torzhok to hand three advanced Kamov Ka-52 multirole combat helicopters to the branch on 28 December 2010.

On 21 December 2010, during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to India, Rosoboronexport and HAL made a contract for development of the preliminary design of a fifth-generation Prospective Multirole Fighter (PMF). The contract was signed by Rosoboronexport Director General Anatoly Isaykin and Sukhoi Director General Mikhail Pogosyan, on the one hand, and by HAL Chairman Ashok Nayak and HAL Director (D&D) N.C. Agarwal.

Last year, the Kazan Helicopters plant, a subsidiary of the Russian Helicopters JSC, launched production of new Mil Mi-17-V5 helicopters to India under a large contract for 80 machines, signed by the Indian Defence Ministry’s Acquisition Department and Rosoboronexport state corporation in December 2008, during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to New Delhi. The contract became the major recent export deal on the helicopters of the Mi-17 family made in the city of Kazan. The media reported in the wake of the contract’s signature that the aircraft were to be delivered during 2011–2014.

The long-awaited signature of an agreement on the establishment of Russian-Indian joint venture to develop the Multirole Transport Aircraft (MTA) took place in India on 9 September 2010 with the MTA Ltd. JV was founded on 1 December 2010. The Russian participants in the venture are the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and Rosoboronexport government-owned corporation while their Indian counterpart is Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL). The signatories have a fifty-fifty ownership of the stock, with the joint venture being headquartered in Bangalore.