Samara"s aircraft factory Motorostroitel will modernise Russian-made Tu-142 planes of the Indian navy's aviation.

A spokesman at the factory's press service told ITAR-TASS that the director-general of Motorostroitel, Igor Shitarev, and Indian naval attache Muralidkharan discussed the project of modernising the Samara-produced engines of the Indian Tu-142s at a meeting on Tuesday.

Engines of most of the anti--submarine planes have run out of their service life and need the modernisation.

The Samara factory annually repairs about 15 engines for the Indian planes. Motorostroitel is Russia's largest maker of plane and rocket engines.

Its major production areas are high--technology military, civil and double--purpose products.

Samara engines equip Tu-95, Tu-142,Tu-22 and Tu-160 planes

Source: Agencies