After waging the 1962 Sino-Indian War and the 1965 war with Pakistan, India pursued close military and economic ties with the Soviet Union; by the late 1960s, the Soviet Union was its largest arms supplier.
Despois de finalizar a guerra sino-india en 1962 e a guerra con Paquistán en 1965, a India estreitou os seus lazos militares e económicos coa Unión Soviética; a finais dos anos 1960, os soviéticos eran os maiores fornecedores de armas da India.