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Weapons Programs Of Russian Defence Ministry In Tables

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2021 – Global military spending 2,113 billion dollars Increase of 0.7 % from 2022 Increase of 12 % from 2012 1. USA ($801 billion, decrease of 1.4 % from 2020) 2. China ($293 billion, increase of 4.7 % from 2020 3. India ($76.6 billion, increase of 0.9 % from 2020) 4. Britain ($68.4 billion, increase of 3 % from 2020) 5. Russia

Ballistic missiles (21 launchers)	Yars Avangard Sarmat
Submarines (3)	Borey-A
Missile Carriers	Tu-160M

Armoured and Artillery	More than 1000 pieces
Air Defence Systems (2)	S-400 Triumph
Short distance rocket systems	Gubka-S
Aircraft	Su-57

Air Defence Systems (5)	S-400 Triumph
Missile Carriers (4)	Tu-95MS
Coastal Missile Systems (3)	Bastion
Anti-Aircraft Missiles and Cannon Systems	Pantsir-S S-350 Vityaz
Aviation Equipment (151)
Helicopters (29)
Aircraft (77)
UAV Complexes (45)


Increase of 15% from previous year
Conclusion of contracts: 85% (despite sanctions)
Remuneration of military personnel	Indexed
Remuneration of civilian personnel	Indexed
Military pensioners, including combat veterans	Extended to relatives

Orders to state customers: 88% to 100%

Participants of the military-industrial complex
Rosatom
Roscosmos
Rostec
JSC Concern of East Kazaghstan Region Almaz – Antey
JSC USC
JSC Tactical Missile Armament Corporation
JSC Marine Instrumentation Corporation

Creation of UAV complexes	Until 2027 and up to 2032

Arctic
117 structures built (108%)
28 objects to be built in 2022

Military Districts
12 new units and sub-units in the Western district
Training periods increased by 25%
Training periods in the Baltic Fleet increased by 42%	More than 300 combat exercises


Contracts awarded
Military Industrial Company LLC	BTR-82A armored personnel carriers
	Tiger vehicles

Armory Workshops LLC	Tiger-M car car with a remote-controlled combat module “Arbalet”

Uralvagonzavod	T-90M tanks
	overhaul of the T-80BV

103rd Armored Repair Plant	overhaul of the BMP-2 with modernization

Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering (KBM)	manufacture and supply of missiles for the Iskander-M complex

Tactical Missile Armament Corporation (KTRV)	supply of air-to-surface and air-to-radar aircraft missiles

Smolensk Aircraft Factory	manufacture and supply of air-to-ship aircraft missiles

Central Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics	UAB-20 guided aerial bombs
	“Innovator-1” mobile complex for the destruction of toxic chemicals

A.Ya. Bereznyak State Machine-Building Design Bureau Raduga JSC	long-range air-launched cruise missiles

Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan	S-500 air defense system

Aerospace Defense Concern Almaz-Antey	aviation and air defense control system

Total exceeting 522 billion rubles	More than 3,700 new models of equipment Modernization of over 100 units of military and special equipment

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2022


Contracts signed at Army-2022 Forum	36 state contracts
	525 billion rubles
	Portfolio: $592,650,000 and 1,770,000,000 rubles

Federal budget for 2023
Increase by 302.9 billion rubles to 4,981.6 billion rubles	2021: 3,573.6 billion rubles 2022: 4,678.7 billion rubles 2024: 4,648.8 billion rubles 2025: 4,206.1 billion rubles

2 billion rubles for maintenance and equipment of Railway troops	Eastern polygon: 2.3 billion rubles
Reconstruction of the Ulak — Febralsk section of the Baikal-Amur mainline, length of 340 km

16 billion rubles for creation of the mobilization human reserve of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation	15.96 billion rubles in 2023 16.53 billion rubles in 2024 16.53 billion rubles in 2025

National defence: 13.7 trillion rubles for 2023-2025	2023: 4.9 trillion rubles 2024: 4.6 trillion rubles 2025: 4.2 trillion rubles

2023: 3.3% of the GDP (increase by 17.1% from 2022) 2024: 2.9% of the GDP (decrease by 16.2% from 2022) 2025: 2.5% of the GDP (decrease by 15.1% from 2022)

Development programme 2011-2020

By 2015 modern weapons for army, navy and aviation – increase by 30%
By 2020, increase by 70%
Project 2007-2015 was not fully implemented	4 trillion 939 billion 400 million rubles allocated Armed Forces received 4 trillion 98 billion rubles or 83%

Weapons Purchase Plans and their Realisation
Weapons and Military Equipment	Project Implementation Unit 2007-2015 (Project)	Transfers to the AF of the RF 2007-2011	Project Implementation 2011-2020 (Project)
Iskander Complex	5 brigades	1 brigade	10 brigades
Aircraft	116	22	600
Helicopters	156	60	1000
Anti-Aircraft Systems	18 divisions	4 divisions	56 divisions
Corvettes and Frigates	12	2	50
Nuclear-Powered attack submarines	7	1	8
Submarines	6	0	20

400 modern land- and sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles
8 strategic missile submarines
About 20 multi-purpose submarines
More than 50 combat surface ships
About 100 military spacecraft
More than 600 modern aircraft, including 5^th generation fighters
Over 1000 helicopters
28 regimental sets of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems
38 divisional sets of Vityaz anti-aircraft missile systems
10 brigade sets of Iskander-M missile systems
Over 2.3 thousand modern tanks
About 2000 self-propelled artillery systems and guns
More than 17,000 units of military vehicles

Increase the number of formations and unis of permanent combat readiness to 600
45% of the existing military equipment will be replaced

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Possible Combat Strength of the Russian Air Force for 2020

New

Modernised

Not Modernised

Strategic and Long-Range Bombers

16 Tu-160

36 Tu-95MS

30 Tu-22M3

20 Tu-95MS

70Tu-22M3

Military Transport of Tankers

39 Il-76MD-90A

30 Il-78MD-90A

60 An-70

50 MTA

30 L-410

20 An-148

10 An-140-100

100 Light Coastal Defence Systems

3 Tu-154M

20 An-124-100

41 Il-76MDM

4 An-124

60 Il-76MD

20 Il-78

5 An-22

No less than 20 An-26/30

No less than 10 Tu-154B

No less than 10 Tu-134UBL

Special Purpose Aircraft

2 Tu-204ON

2 Tu-204R

No less than 5 A-100

No less than 10 Il-20

No less than 10 Il-22

12 A-50U

Tactical Aviation

60 T-50

120 Su-35C

60 Su-30SM

4 Su-30M2

12 Su-27SM3

34 MiG-29SMT/UBM

140 Su-34

12 Su-25UBM

80 Ya-130

120 MiG-31BM

55 Su-27SM

120 Su024M/MR

10 MiG-25RB

150 Su-25SM

150 Su-27

100 MiG-29

50 Su024M/MR

50 Su-25

100 L-39

Army Aviation

167 Mi-28N-NM

180 Ka-52

49 Mi-35M

38 Mi-26T/T2

500 Mi-8MTV/AMTSh

100 K-62

70 “Ansat-U”

36 Ka-226

100 light helicopters

30 Mi-24PN

20 Mi-*MTKO

20 Mi-26T

10 Ka-50

100 Mi-24V/P

300 Mi-8T/MTV

20 Mi-2

Type of Troops	Proportion of Allocations, trillion rubles	Percentage	Planned to purchase or develop
Ground Troops	2,6	15	2300 tanks, 2000 artillery systems, 10 brigade complexes of operational and tactical missiles Iskander-M, 9 brigade complexes of army air defence S-300V4, more than 30,000 units of automotive equipment
Military and Naval Fleet	5,0	25	8 SSBN of Project 955, 8 multi-purpose submarines of Project 885, 12 non-nuclear submarines, 51 ships (including 15 frigates and up to 35 corvettes)
Air Force	4,7	24	600 aircraft, 110 helicopters
Strategic Missile Forces	1,0	5	270-280 ICBM Yars, development of new solid-fuel ICBMs Rubezh and new heavy liquid ICBM Sarmat
Aerospace Defence	3,4	17	56 divisions of S-400, 38 division of S-500, 38 divisions of S-350, 120 Pantsir-S launchers, integrated management system of the aerospace defence, 4 Voronezh radar systems, 100 satellites
Other and Joint-Forces	2,7	14	New communication, management and intelligence systems
Total	19,4	100

Russian Army T-90A tank

Tanks and Infantry Fighting Vehicles

Upgraded T-72B3 tanks
T-90M
New generation of Armata tank T14
Modern BMP-3
Upgraded BMP-2	Installation of the Bereshok combat compartment installed
B-11 Kurganets-25 being tested
BTR-82AM
BTR-K17 Boomerang being developed

Russian warships are seen during a rehearsal for the Navy Day parade in Sevastopol, Crimea, July 24, 2015. REUTERS/Pavel Rebrov

Construction of Ships for the Russian Navy as part of the Russian State Armament Development Program for 2011-2020
10 cruiser submarines – Project 955/955A/955U
10 nuclear all-purpose submarines – Project 855/855M
6 submarines – Project 636.3 Varshavianka
14 submarines – Project 577 Lada
4 helicopter carriers Mistral
35 corvettes
10 small rocket ships – Project 31631
6 frigates – Project 11356
6 large landing ships – Project 11711
8 frigates – Projects 22350

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DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION NO. 603 OF MAY 7, 2012
CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, OTHER TROOPS, MILITARY FORMATIONS AND BODIES AND THE MODERNIZATION OF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
a) equipping the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, other troops, military formations and bodies with modern models of weapons, military and special equipment, bringing their share to 70 percent by 2020
b) priority development of nuclear deterrence forces, means of aerospace defense, communication, intelligence and control systems, electronic warfare, unmanned aerial vehicle complexes, robotic strike complexes, modern transport aviation, precision weapons and means of combating them, systems of individual protection of military personnel
c) development of the Navy, primarily in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and in the Far East, in order to protect the strategic interests of the Russian Federation
d) implementation in 2012 of the following activities	creation of a qualitatively new system of analysis and strategic planning in the field of countering threats to national security for a period of 30 to 50 years in the interests of the formation of state armament programs
	expanding the practice of holding open tenders and auctions within the framework of the implementation of the state defense order and increasing responsibility for violating the requirements established by legislative and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation in the field of the state defense order
	improvement of the regulatory framework in the field of state defense orders and pricing for military products
	simplification of the procedure for creating new production facilities for military products, including through the implementation of the mechanism of public-private partnership
	creation of a management system for the full industrial cycle of production of weapons, military and special equipment — from modeling and design to serial production of products, ensuring their operation and further disposal
	creation of a system aimed at improving the management of the economic activities of defense industry organizations in order to optimize production processes that allow the use of advanced technologies, including foreign ones, to create high-quality products
	ensuring the dynamic development of breakthrough high-risk research and development, fundamental science and the implementation of applied research programs in the interests of national defense and state security, including with the participation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, state research centers and leading universities
	preparation of methodological recommendations on the formation of the draft state armament program for 2016-2025, which provides for the comprehensive rearmament of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, other troops, military formations and bodies on the basis of competitive domestic models of weapons, military and special equipment
e) preparation of proposals in 2012	on the creation of federal executive bodies subordinate to the Government of the Russian Federation, performing the functions of placing a state defense order and monitoring its execution
	to clarify the Rules for the development and implementation of state weapons programs
	to create a unified information base of research and development works, the results of intellectual activity and technologies of military, special and dual-use, design documentation for military products for their use in the creation of innovative dual-use and civilian products
	to improve the system of vocational education of employees of organizations of the military-industrial complex, to improve the standard of living of these workers, as well as to build residential premises for them

PRIORITY TASKS
Continue building up the combat capabilities of the Armed Forces
Take measures to strengthen the groupings of troops in the Western, South-Western and Arctic strategic directions
To ensure timely deployment and strict execution of the tasks of the GOZ-2017 and to reach the equipping of the Armed Forces with modern weapons and equipment in units of constant readiness of more than 60%

Russian nuclear powered submarine Knyaz Vladimir ready for sea duty

Strategic Nuclear Forces (para.149)

Strategic Missile Forces	1 Tu-160 4 Tu-95MS

General Purpose Forces

2 brigade sets of Iskander-M missiles for ground forces
Re-equip 3 division of air defence with Tor-M2 anti-aircraft systems
Supply 905 modern tanks and armoured combat vehicles
Accept 170 new and upgraded aircraft by the Aerospace Forces and Navy
Re-equip 4 anti-aircraft missile regiments with S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems
Introduce 8 surface ships to the Navy
Introduce 9 combat boats to the Navy
Commissioning and putting on combat duty 3 radar stations in Yeniseisk, Orsk and Barnaul
Launch the second spacecraft of the United Space System

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu salutes during the 72nd anniversary of the end of World War II on the Red Square in Moscow, on May 9, PHOTO: REUTERS

EXECUTION OF THE STATE DEFENSE ORDER IN 2018 (para. 161)
Funds allocated (2018): 1.5 trillion rubles
About 70 per cent of these funds allocated to series procurement
Provided solutions to problematic issues of placement and execution of tasks of the State Budget with integrated structures and directly with organizations of the defense industry complex (MIC) – executors of state contracts
Rearmament of the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces group will be done taking into account the implementation of the US concept of “Global Strike” and the deployment of global missile defense
Measures taken made it possible to contract the main amount of funds in a timely manner, by May 15, which is about 94 percent, and to begin implementing the tasks of the State Budget
About 115,000 units of modern models and equipment have been delivered to the troops, including more than 2,500 basic air force units that determine the combat power of the types and types of troops:	Su-30SM and Su-35S fighters, Su-34 front-line bombers, Yak-130 combat training aircraft, Ka-52, Ka-226, Mi-8 helicopters of various modifications. In total – more than 120 units of aviation equipment
	large deliveries of new BMP-3, BTR-82A armored personnel carriers, as well as amphibious BTR-MDM and BMD-4M. In total – more than 300 units of armored weapons and equipment
	Rocket and artillery armament for the current year, ATGMs “Chrysanthemum-SP” and “Kornet”, self-propelled howitzers “Msta-SM”, a divisional set of ATGMS “Iskander-M”, cruise missiles “Caliber” and “Onyx” were delivered to the troops. In total – more than 120 units of rocket and artillery weapons
	Frigate of project 22350 “Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov”, the MRK of project 22800 “Mytishchi” and project 21631 “Orekhovo-Zuyevo” were accepted into the structure. Various combat boats and support vessels, as well as coastal missile systems “Bal” and “Bastion” were received. On December 25, the corvette 20380 “Loud” will be transferred to the TOPF. In total – more than 20 ships and vessels of various purposes
	In 2018, the Armed Forces were replenished with the Pantsir-S air defense system, the Tor-M2 air defense system, including the Arctic version, the Buk-M3 air defense system, the S-400 Triumph air defense system
	Troops received over 100 complexes of radar stations for various purposes, small arms and equipment, communications equipment, RCBZ, the latest electronic warfare systems and much more
	About 8,500 repaired and modernized models and weapons, including more than 2,000 basic ones, have been returned to service. More than 57,000 armaments and military and special purpose equipment units were serviced directly for the troops
the level of equipment of permanent readiness units with modern serial models of the Air Force to 61.5 percent, and the provision of troops with weapons and equipment to 98 percent and to maintain the serviceability of the fleet at about 94 percent
In accordance with the May 2012 presidential decrees of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defense has developed and implemented an Activity Plan until 2020	In six years, the Armed Forces received 109 intercontinental ballistic missiles “Yars”; 108 ballistic missiles submarines; three strategic missile submarines “Borey”; 57 spacecraft; seven submarines; 17 coastal missile systems “Bal” and “Bastion”, as well as 3712 new and upgraded tanks and other armored combat vehicles; more than 1,000 aircraft and helicopters; 161 surface ships, boats and vessels
	12 missile regiments for the Yars complexes were re-equipped; 10 missile brigades for the Iskander complex; 13 aviation regiments for the MiG-31BM, Su-35S, Su-30SM, Su-34; three army aviation brigades and six helicopter regiments for the Ka-52 and Mi-28; 20 anti-aircraft missile regiments for the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system; 23 divisions for the Pantsir-S complex; 17 divisions for the Bal and Bastion missile systems
The number of failures of new weapons and equipment has been reduced by 2.7
The measures taken made it possible to increase by 2019 the number of carriers of high–precision long-range land, sea and air-based weapons by more than 12 times, and high-precision cruise missiles by more than 30 times
By 2019, a continuous radar field of the missile attack warning system has been created along the perimeter of the Russian border in all strategic aerospace directions and along all types of ballistic missile flight paths
A unified space detection and combat control system is being deployed
A new space rocket complex “Angara” has been created
Almost all Ground forces, as well as motorized rifle brigades and naval infantry brigades – a total of 35 formations – are provided with modern combat equipment “Ratnik-2”
By 2019, the equipment of the Armed Forces with modern weapons increased 3.8 times – from 16% to 61.5%
In the Strategic Nuclear Forces, it is 82%, in the Ground Forces – 48.3%, the Aerospace Forces – 74%, the Navy – 62.3%, the Airborne Forces – 63.7%
New type of Armed Forces:	the Aerospace Forces
	the formation of the USC “Northern Fleet”
	three armies: combined arms, tank, air Force and air defense army
	four army corps
	25 formations
	more than 150 military units and organizations
Crimea has been strengthened, which ensures the protection of the peninsula’s territory and Russia’s interests in the Black Sea
An Operational Command has been established in the Far Sea zone, which provides control of ships performing tasks in the Mediterranean Sea
In six years, 38 military units have been formed, which have been armed with more than two thousand modern drones
In total, 316 samples of modern weapons in Syria were tested
By 2019, a continuous radar field of the missile attack warning system has been created along the perimeter of the Russian border
the number of annual combat training events has increased six and a half times compared to 2012 – up to 18 thousand. The number of annual interspecific exercises has increased 2.7 times – up to 1,500, and bilateral exercises 57 times – up to about 1,700
Since December 1, 2014, the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation has been on combat duty
A system of centers and control points of the Armed Forces has been created
A network of secure video conferencing has been deployed, numbering over 210 fixed terminals and 70 mobile sets
New digital telecommunications equipment has been installed at more than 1,200 facilities of the Ministry of Defense – in almost every unit and military unit, in all military educational institutions

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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI new report “Trends in world military expenditure, 2019”
Global military spending in 2019 is estimated at $ 1917 billion	highest level since 1988
	3.6 percent higher than in 2018
	7.2% higher than in 2010
Growth is primarily due to an increase in US military spending	increased by 5.3 percent and reached $ 732 billion
Top five countries with the largest military expenditures also included China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia	China’s military spending last year increased by 5.1 percent and reached $ 261 billion
	India increased its military spending by 6.8 percent to $ 71.1 billion
Russian Federation ranked fourth in the world in terms of military spending in 2019 with an indicator of $65.1 billion or 3.9% of GDP	Between 2018 and 2019, Russia’s military spending increased by 4.5 percent, and its military burden increased from 3.7% of GDP to 3.9%.
	The defense budget in 2018 amounted to $61.4 billion (2.8% of GDP)
Largest increase in spending among the 15 countries with the largest military expenditures in the world in 2019 fell on Germany	10% (49.3 billion dollars)
The countries in the top five — the United States, China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia — account for 62% of total military spending in the world, according to the SIPRI report

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The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Development from 2012 to 2020
The share of modern designs in strategic nuclear forces (SNF) has increased:	from 42% to 81% of ground-based strategic nuclear forces
	from 46% to 89% in marine strategic nuclear forces
	from 22% to 88% in aviation strategic nuclear forces
	from 37% to 86% armaments and military and special purpose equipment in the SNF
the number of carriers of long-range cruise missiles in strategic non-nuclear forces has increased 13 times
the number of long-range cruise missiles in strategic non-nuclear forces has increased 37 times
The share of modern armaments and military and special purpose equipment samples by species and generation has increased:	from 16% to 70.1% of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
	from 15% to 55.4% in the Ground Forces
	from 30% to 85.9% in the Aerospace Forces
	from 52% to 65.7% in the Navy
	from 42% to 81% in the SMF
	from 18% to 71.6% in the Airborne

The main results of the activities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2012-2020

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conducted 10 successful launches of the Yars strategic complex in the period from 2012 to 2020

In 2012-2020, five successful launches of an intercontinental ballistic missile with hypersonic gliding Avangard cruise blocks were also carried out

The number of complexes “Yars” and “Avangard” increased in 2012-2020 by 14 times and four times, respectively

The number of carriers of long-range cruise missiles in the Russian army increased 13 times in the period from 2012 to 2020

The number of long-range land, air and sea cruise missiles increased 37 times in 2012-2020

The refinement of strategic aviation aircraft for the use of new cruise missiles led to an increase in their combat capabilities by 1.7 times

More than 900 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been delivered to the Russian army since 2012

A total of 551 units of basic samples of rocket and artillery weapons (RAV) were delivered. The share of modern RAV models has been increased by more than 70%, including 22 anti-aircraft missile systems, 270 artillery units and multiple launch rocket systems, 188 anti-tank missile systems and 71 reconnaissance vehicles

The share of modern armaments and military and special purpose equipment has increased 70 times