一架法国制造的战斗机首次在印度航空母舰上降落，标志着整合新购战机的努力开始，也标志着这个南亚国家逐步摆脱对俄罗斯制造军事装备的依赖。
A French-made fighter performed its maiden landing on an Indian aircraft carrier, signaling the start of efforts to integrate the newly acquired jets and the South Asian nation’s gradual shift away from Russian-made military equipment.
印度海军在X平台的一篇帖子中表示，此次试飞是“阵风”海军型战斗机加入舰队迈出的“第一步”。据彭博新闻社报道，印度正以74亿美元从法国购买26架该型战机。预计这些新飞机将在大约24个月后开始进行舰载作战。
The trials mark the “first step” toward inducting the Rafale Marine fighter jet in the fleet, the Indian Navy said in a post on India is buying 26 of the jets from France for $7.4 billion, Bloomberg News reported. The new aircraft are expected to start carrier-borne operations in about 24 months.
印度海军目前在其航空母舰上使用老旧的俄罗斯制造米格-29K战斗机。这些法国战机将增强其舰载航空能力，该国正寻求在印度洋将自己定位为制衡中国的力量，该地区有多条世界上最繁忙的贸易航线纵横交错。
The Indian Navy currently operates an aging fleet of Russian-made MiG-29K fighters from its aircraft carriers. The French jets will strengthen its carrier-based aviation capability as the country seeks to position itself as a counterweight to China in the Indian Ocean, a region crisscrossed by some of the world’s busiest trade routes.
根据追踪全球武器转让的智库斯德哥尔摩国际和平研究所的数据，印度正在使其武器来源多元化，在2021年开始的五年期间，印度是继埃及和希腊之后法国武器的最大买家。但该报告称，尽管俄罗斯的份额在过去十年中大幅下降，俄罗斯仍然是印度最大的武器供应国，在同一五年期间占该国武器进口的约40%。
India is diversifying its sources of weapons and was the largest buyer of French weapons after Egypt and Greece in the five-year period beginning 2021, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a think tank that tracks global arms transfers. Russia, however, remained India’s largest weapons supplier despite a sharp decline in its share over the past decade, accounting for about 40% of the country’s arms imports during the same five-year period, the report said.