Putin requires a massive arming plan for the next decade: “Let's use the experience of the special military operation in Ukraine”
Russian President Vladimir Putin Photo: Alexander Kazakov / AP / Profimedia
The Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered, during a meeting dedicated to the development of the military-industrial sector, the elaboration of a state arming plan by 2036, to use the war experience in Ukraine and the modern tendencies in the development of the worldwide armament.
“Our task today is to elaborate a new long -term program for the entire set of weapons systems, including the newest, using the experience of” special military operation “(in Ukraine), different regional conflicts, as well as global tendencies in the development of military technologies,” he said at this reunion, as he reported on Wednesday, as Agerpres.
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The Russian leader welcomed the fact that measures were taken between 2008 and 2010 to stimulate the development of Russia's military-industrial complex, which allowed Moscow to reach its current level. “This allows us to produce the necessary volume of weapons and equipment today,” he said.
Putin said that from now on there will be a series of working meetings in which the “key parameters of a new arming program will be analyzed for the years 2027-2036”.
“Provides the balance of forces worldwide”
“Particular attention should be paid to the nuclear triad, which was and continues to be the guarantor of Russia, having a key role in ensuring the balance of forces worldwide,” he said.
However, “the ground forces continue to represent the dominant force in modern wars of any extent and any intensity,” Putin said, adding that they need an “increase in capabilities”.
“It is necessary to increase their fight capabilities as soon as possible, to create solid conditions for their development, to ensure the creation of advanced weapons systems with the highest tactical-technical characteristics and modernization possibilities,” he said.
“The new weapons not be left outdoors”
Putin also ordered the persons in the military industry “to calculate in advance the needs and to prepare the infrastructure for the location of new weapons, including bases, warehouses, aerodromes and others.”
The financial resources for the construction and modernization of these installations must be included in the state program, said the Russian president, demanding to act so that the new weapons are not left “outdoors”, in an allusion to the strategic planes stationed under the open sky in Russia, which was recently the target of an Ukrainian attack.
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He said that the new program “should become an effective tool for implementing the recently approved strategy for the development of Russian armed forces by 2050”.
At the same time, Putin said that the new measures of the new state program for the army endowment “must be put in strict agreement with the economy mobilization plans”.
Record Budget for Armament Production
The previous state-of-arming program cost the federal budget over 20 trillion rubles ($ 250 billion) in 2012-2022 and was suspended in the first months of the invasion in Ukraine, notes The Moscow Times. According to him, in 2020 Russian troops were to receive army tank formations, a new type of bombardier, 600 planes and thousands of helicopters, and the share of modern weapons was to increase to 70%. But the Russian army entered in February 2022 in Ukraine with outdated equipment, old paper maps and in a few months it has exhausted its high precision rocket reserves, according to the quoted publication.
But since then the weapons in Russia has increased their production. In a three-lap regime, they produce public and bombs for the Russian army that fights on the fronts of Ukraine.
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In the budget on 2025, the Russian government allocated a record amount of 13.2 trillion rubles ($ 165 billion) to maintain the army and weapon production. The share of military expenses in the budget – almost 30% – became unprecedented from the USSR period.
Between 2022-2025, the expenses of the Russian budget for the military sector amounted to 35.5 trillion rubles, or $ 440 billion at the current exchange rate, according to The Moscow Times.
