Russian Armed Forces Will Have Over 80% New Weaponry by 2020

Russian tank in war with Georgia The Russian Armed Forces will have been armed with more than 80 percent of new weaponry by 2020, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting in the Kremlin on Monday before the draft budget for next three years is submitted in the parliament. . . .

The whole armament program was fully synchronized with the Finance Ministry and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. “So, we know today what should be done with the infrastructure over the deadlines of the delivery of weapons and military hardware; how many facilities we should build to maintain this military hardware and how many people we should educate; how many medical institutions and service housing we should build,” Shoigu said. . . .

“We are convinced that we will be able to attain these target indicators in the work that we are doing today,” Shoigu assured the president.

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Image: Russian tank in war with Georgia (photo: Yana Amelina/Wikipedia)