MOSCOW, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Russian miliraty-industrial complex has increased its output by 13 percent in 2010 and the government would invest over 20 trillion rubles (706 billion U.S. dollars) for army re-armament program by 2020, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
Speaking in the Russian weaponry industry's heartland of Votkinsk, Putin said these investments will be pumped into a high-tech sphere.
The prime minister also revealed Russia would double its production of missile systems from 2013 and promised Russian forces would receive a range of new weaponry, including the strategic Yars and Bulava ICBMs, the anti-aircraft Iskander-M, Pantsir-S and the S-400 Triumph missile systems.
According to Putin, the government will allocate some 77 billion rubles (2.8 billion dollars) for the missile systems production.
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For you "peaceniks" and other "Citizens of the World" Out there
by Darius Kadivar on Thu Apr 21, 2011 04:34 AM PDTFor you "peaceniks" and other "Citizen's of the World" Out there who believe "Brotherly Love" will put an end to all wars ...
I can imagine what a laughing stock our Western Democracies have become in the eyes of the New BIG Three : China, Russia and India. Emerging economic and military powers of Asia who will impose their global vision on the rest of us. Our presence on the Security Council of the UN is also becoming a subject of parody given how clumsily we are handling the Libyan Crisis.