Shoigu's statement, that Russia will continue to create an independent weapons system, shows the consistency of the course to strengthen the country's army. About it FBA “economy today” said military expert Ivan Konovalov.
Defense Minister, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said: Russia will continue to create its weapons. “Will Western Economic Sanctions Remain Or Not – in any case, we will continue to create a technologically independent weapons system”, – said the general. According to him, over one and a half trillion rubles allocated this year for the rearmament of the army and navy. More 70% of these funds are directed to serial purchases of modern weapons and equipment.
“Talk, that Russia re-equips the army in a fairly short time is still impossible - intensive work began in 2008 year after the well-known events in the North Caucasus during the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia, – the specialist. - And ten years is still a tangible period. But most importantly: with the arrival of Shoigu in the Ministry of Defense, the priorities and directions of the reform were clearly defined. This made it possible to understand, how can huge state investments be effectively spent on rearmament.
And if you analyze the progress of the reform, can see: in different years, priority was given to different types of troops of the Russian army. There was a period, when the Air Force was highlighted (now Aerospace), in other years, priority was given to the fleet, did not forget about the ground forces. But overall it was a new approach, which made it possible to level the situation in different types of troops and thereby strengthen the Russian army comprehensively, which gave serious results”.
Nuclear triad
According to Shoigu, the share of new weapons and equipment in the Russian Armed Forces by the end of the year will grow to 68%. In this way, the plan is executed faster, than the Ministry of Defense originally expected. Previously reported, what's the end 2019 year, the share of new weapons and equipment will grow to 67%. “Currently, the troops have received more than two thousand three hundred units of new and modernized equipment.. This will allow us to continue to guarantee the solution of tasks as intended.”, – the minister said.
According to the main samples, the planned indicators of purchases and modernization were fulfilled at 47%. Comparing with the previous year, the rate of supply of high-tech weapons increased by 6,7%, the minister pointed out. And he added,: at present, the troops received more than two thousand three hundred units of new and modernized equipment. According to the main samples, the planned indicators of purchases and modernization were fulfilled at 47%, and the rate of supply of high-tech weapons increased by 6,7% comparing with the previous year.
“Shoigu's approach to vary the modernization of certain types of troops to obtain an acceptable balance of overall combat effectiveness was fully justified, but he had one exception for ten years. Whatever priorities are put forward depending on the needs of the army, all, what concerns our strategic armaments remained the focus of attention. These are strategic bombers, latest weapons delivery vehicles “doomsday”, submarines to strike a potential enemy - all, what about Russia's nuclear triad.
Again, this approach was fully justified - the global security of Russia depends on these weapons.. As long as the potential aggressor realizes, that in the event of an attack on the Russian Federation, it will receive unacceptable damage, expressed in the transformation of its territories into a nuclear desert, he will refrain from attack. That is, Shoigu's department has always been able to combine large-scale work on rearmament of the army while maintaining strategic nuclear parity”, – He emphasizes the expert.
At the junction with “citizen”
According to the head of the Defense Ministry, the measures taken allowed more than 12 times to increase the number of carriers of high-precision long-range weapons, sea and airborne, as well as the number of high-precision cruise missiles – increased by more than 30 time. FROM 2012 the Russian army received 109 intercontinental ballistic missiles, seven submarines, over a thousand planes and helicopters, over three thousand new tanks, and 57 spacecraft.
Besides, Russia is actively developing the Arctic. For seven years, the department has built in the region 475 objects, on which the military is stationed, special weapons and equipment. In December last year, Sergei Shoigu said, that the US authorities plan to expand the presence of their military forces in the Arctic, and achieve superiority in space. he stressed, that the Russian side “closely monitors the situation”.
“Large-scale reforms of the army could not but affect the civil life of Russia. After the collapse of the USSR in the unified industry of Russia, there was a gap between the civil and defense components., which led to the decline in general. “Dashing” 1990-did not aggravate the system in many ways to extremes. Shoigu's department, within the framework of army reforms at the system level, launched reverse processes.
Military production has once again become the locomotive of Russian industry. Traditionally, work in the field of high technologies in army developments is easy for our country - we are demonstrating serious success. At the same time, all developments, in whole or in part, gradually pass into civil life.. In parallel, the capacities of hundreds of enterprises are involved, thousands of jobs are created. In general, the process of rearmament of the army has had a powerful healing effect on the Russian economy.”, – concludes Ivan Konovalov.
Max Boot
