Russia may lease nuke subs to India: Medvedev

Russia may lease out nuclear- powered submarines to India, President Dmitry Medvedev was quoted as saying yesterday.

Russia has a large fleet of nuclear-powered but conventionally armed submarines besides its force of strategic nuclear-armed vessels. Medvedev appeared to be referring to the former in an interview with Indian journalists.

"We are talking also about cooperation in the sphere of leasing atomic submarines," Medvedev said, according to a Kremlin transcript. "This is in fact also an important and highly technological area of cooperation."