Military budget of the Russian Federation

The press informs about the plans of the Ministry of Finance to reduce the number of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and increase the length of service for military retirement

A material was released in the press, which tells about the proposal of the Ministry of Finance to conduct another "optimization" in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Russia.

The Izvestia article says that Anton Siluanov's department is proposing to increase the retirement age for servicemen, as well as to reduce the total number of servicemen in the ranks of the Armed Forces. Referring to the document, a copy of which is reportedly available in Izvestia's editorial office , journalists write that the document contains an initiative to reduce every tenth serviceman.
- In this case, up to 100 thousand people in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces may be laid off. It is stated that "a transfer to civilian vacancies can be made for those whose service is not related to the performance of combat missions."
- The initiative to increase the length of service involves the following: to increase it from 20 years to 25 years, and to exclude from it the period of study at a military school.
- But that's not all. The Ministry of Finance, according to the aforementioned Russian publication, proposes to remove the norm, which implies an annual increase in military pensions by 2% above the inflation rate in the country.
- It is also added that the Ministry of Finance proposes to extend similar initiatives to other law enforcement agencies. In particular, we are talking about the Russian Guard.
- It is noted that all these proposals are presented for the sake of "saving budget funds."

NOTE: read on the Military of Defense website this morning that after a through review of Finances proposal, the Defense Ministry rejected them all. The battle for the Ruble continues.

The bean counters are just trying to do their jobs. I agree with their idea that the military school period (4-5 years) should not count against the 20-year pension eligibility and that any jobs civilians could be doing, should be doing.

The_Observer wrote:Is Russia's long-term rearmament budget an aggregation of it's annual (acquisition) defense budget or is it a "separate and apart" funding source that is concurrently disbursed alongside the yearly defense budget?

Part of the annual budget.

Pandemics in spite of: why countries of the world have increased the military burden
SIPRI: Russia entered the top 5 countries in terms of military spending in the world

The top five states - leaders on the list in 2020 accounted for 62% of all global military spending. The top 5 includes the United States, China, India, Russia and the United Kingdom, according to a SIPRI report released on April 26. China's military spending has risen for the 26th straight year.

Overall, global military spending increased by 2.6% over the year, while global gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 4.4% ( International Monetary Fund forecast for October 2020). Experts cite the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for the reduction in the second indicator.

As a result, military spending as a share of GDP - the military burden - reached the global average of 2.4% in 2020, up from 2.2% in 2019. This was the largest increase in military load on an annualized basis since the 2009 global financial and economic crisis.

While military spending has risen globally, some countries have clearly reallocated some of their planned military spending towards the pandemic response, such as Chile and South Korea. Several other states, including Brazil and Russia, spent significantly less than their original military budgets for 2020, the SIPRI document emphasizes.

“We can say with some certainty that the pandemic did not have a significant impact on global military spending in 2020,” said Dr Diego Lopes da Silva, Research Fellow at the SIPRI Arms and Defense Expenditure Program. "It remains to be seen whether the countries will maintain this level of military spending during the second year of the pandemic."

The skyrocketing US military spending continued into 2020. In 2020, U.S. spending on defense reached approximately $ 778 billion, up 4.4% from 2019.

The United States, as the country with the largest military budget in the world, accounted for 39% of total military spending in 2020. This was the third consecutive year of growth in US military spending after seven years of continuous cuts.

“The recent increase in US military spending can be primarily attributed to significant investment in research and development, as well as several long-term projects such as modernizing the US nuclear arsenal and large-scale arms purchases,” said Alexandra Marksteiner, a researcher at the SIPRI Arms and Defense Expenditure Program.

"This reflects the growing concern of the United States about perceived threats from strategic rivals such as China and Russia, as well as the desire of [former US President] Donald Trump 's administration to support what it saw as a depleted US military," Marksteiner added.

China's military spending, the second-largest in the world, is estimated at $ 252 billion - an increase of 1.9% over 2019 and 76% over the 2011-2020 decade.

China's spending has grown for 26 consecutive years, the longest period of any country in the SIPRI database.

"China stands out as the only country in the world with a large military budget to increase its military burden relatively modestly in 2020, despite rising military spending due to positive GDP growth last year," said Dr. Nan Tian, ​​Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Institute. ... "China's continued growth in spending is partly due to the country's long-term plans to modernize and increase the state's military power in line with its stated desire to catch up with other major military powers."

Despite the economic downturn, more and more NATO member states are overfulfilling their military spending targets.

Almost all NATO members are faced with an increased military burden in 2020. As a result, the 12 members of the alliance spent 2% or more of their GDP on national military forces, which is the Alliance's primary spending target. In 2019, there were only nine such states. France, for example, the eighth largest military budget in the world, crossed the 2% threshold for the first time since 2009.

“While more NATO members spent more than 2% of GDP on their armed forces in 2020, in some cases this was likely due to the economic fallout of the pandemic rather than a deliberate decision to meet the Alliance's spending target,” said SIPRI Research Fellow on armaments and military expenditures Lopes da Silva.

Russia's military spending increased by 2.5% in 2020 to $ 61.7 billion, an increase for the second consecutive year.

Despite this, Russia's military spending in 2020 turned out to be 6.6% lower than originally envisaged: the authors of the report explain this by the influence of COVID-19.

With $ 59.2 billion, the UK has the fifth largest military budget in 2020. UK military spending is 2.9% higher than in 2019, but 4.2% lower than in 2011.

Germany increased its spending by 5.2% to $ 52.8 billion, making it the seventh largest military budget in 2020. Germany's military spending is 28% higher than in 2011.

Overall, military spending in Europe in 2020 increased by 4%.

Besides China, India ($ 72.9 billion), Japan ($ 49.1 billion), South Korea ($ 45.7 billion) and Australia ($ 27.5 billion) are the states with the largest military spending in the Asia and Oceania region. All four countries increased their military spending between 2019 and 2020 and over the decade 2011-2020.

Military spending in sub-Saharan Africa increased by 3.4% in 2020 to $ 18.5 billion.The largest growth was seen in Chad (+ 31%), Mali (+ 22%), Mauritania (+ 23%) and Nigeria (+ 29%), all listed countries belong to the Sahel region, as well as Uganda (+ 46%).

South America's military spending in 2020 fell 2.1% to $ 43.5 billion, largely due to a 3.1% sequestration in defense spending in Brazil, the region's largest military budget.

The aggregate military spending of 11 countries in the Middle East, for which SIPRI has data, decreased by 6.5% to $ 143 billion.

Eight of the nine OPEC members cut their military spending in 2020. Angola's spending fell 12%, Saudi Arabia's 10%, Kuwait's 5.9%. Bahrain, which is not an OPEC member, also cut its spending by 9.8%.

“I would not directly link the military spending of the militarily leading states of the world in 2020 and 2021 with the spread of coronavirus infection. A lot of things are being blamed on this pandemic, " Alexander Burutin, former First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces , Chairman of the Expert Council of the Defense Committee of the State Duma , comments to Gazeta.Ru on the SIPRI report .

According to the lieutenant general,

the increase in expenditures on various military programs is primarily associated with an increase in political instability in the world and a decrease in the level of political interethnic interaction.

In the lexicon of certain politicians, such unfriendly expressions as “aggressor country”, “enemy”, “murderer”, etc., which two years ago could not have been imagined, have started to appear again. The increase in military spending is a reaction to the growth of military confrontation, some harsh, if not aggressive statements by some political leaders, Burutin said.

“As far as the United States is concerned, the growth of the military budget is largely associated with the past presidential elections in the United States. In the course of the pre-election race, each of the candidates tried to enlist the support of the national military lobby, thereby pushing the implementation of various kinds of military programs, ”the expert concluded.

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Sounds a little wishy washy to me...

Russia's military spending increased by 2.5% in 2020 to $ 61.7 billion, an increase for the second consecutive year.

Despite this, Russia's military spending in 2020 turned out to be 6.6% lower than originally envisaged: the authors of the report explain this by the influence of COVID-19.

So they reduced planned spending by 6.6%, but the spending was 2.5% higher... but 2.5% of GDP which was lower this year because of Covid 19... if this years GDP is 3% less than it was last year, and might be 6% up next year a shift of almost 10% in one year... doesn't that make the amount spent per year better to just be put in dollar amounts instead of linking them to GDP?

I realise linking it to GDP makes the amount wealthier countries spend on defence look less insane, but that is hardly the point of releasing such numbers... it should be identifying the insane ones... the ones always pushing for wars and conflicts...

It is essentially helping these monsters get away with pretending to care about human rights and democracy and peace, when clearly the numbers show the exact opposite.

Saying Russian defence budgets are going up... they have been about 65 billion for quite some time... I would think 61.7 billion is a little low for a country the size of Russia that has completely upgraded and overhauled its Army and Air Force and is in the process of boosting its navy with world class equipment and weapons that are no longer able to rely on cheap ready made components from other countries as Russia gets cut off from the west.

Russia in 2022 will spend 3.51 trillion rubles on national defense

MOSCOW, September 21. / TASS /. Russia's national defense spending will amount to 3.51 trillion rubles in 2022, in 2023 and 2024 this figure will reach 3.55 and 3.81 trillion rubles, respectively. This is stated in the explanatory note to the draft federal budget for 2022-2024, which is at the disposal of TASS.

"Budget allocations for the National Defense section in 2022 will amount to 3,510,419.6 million rubles, in 2023 - 3,557,223.3 million rubles and in 2024 - 3,811,777.5 million rubles," the note says. ...

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EDIT: As noted in the document, the share of spending on national defense in comparison with GDP in 2022 will exceed 2.5%. "In relation to the volume of GDP of the corresponding year, the share of expenditures in the National Defense section will be 2.6% in 2022, 2.5% in 2023 and 2024," the note says.

The share in the total volume of federal budget expenditures under the "National Defense" section in 2022-2024 compared to 2021 (14.4%) will increase and will amount to 14.9%, 14.5% and 15.3%, respectively. document.

NOTE: funding to establish an active reserve for the Armed Forces

MOSCOW, September 21. / TASS /. The government of the Russian Federation plans in 2022 to increase the budget for the creation of the human reserve of the armed forces by 15.4 billion rubles. This is stated in the explanatory note to the draft federal budget for 2022-2024, which is at the disposal of TASS.

"Along with the general approaches to the formation of the bill, the change in expenditures under the" National Defense "section <...> influenced <...> an increase in budget allocations <...> to increase the size of the mobilization human reserve of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2022 by 15 368.5 million rubles, in 2023 by 15 899.5 million rubles, in 2024 by 657.5 million rubles, "the text of the document says.

It notes that the reserved budgetary allocations for the creation of the human reserve of the Armed Forces will amount to 15,431.9 million rubles in 2022, 15,962.9 million rubles in 2023, and 16,530.4 million rubles in 2024.

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So what they are saying is that during a conflict there are things that get used up more than during normal training, remember the digital training on simulators doesn't use any fuel or ammo and does not result in the wear and tear on guns, or even the use of cleaning equipment to clean barrels large and small... equally artillery barrels don't wear out much during peace time and mainly old ammo stocks are used up in exercises except when new stuff is being tested or training in using new guided ammo is part of the training.

It makes sense to review what you are buying and what has been getting money spent on and revising that to spending money on things they need and want... small arms ammo, light grenades, both hand held and under barrel launched grenades, as well as other equipment they will be using on the front lines and further back.

More night vision equipment, anti drone weapons as well as drone weapons etc etc that are not often used during peacetime.

Eliminating production for calibres no longer in use and converting them to calibres that are in use is a good way to boost production.

Ironically it sounds like this is something the west should be doing because they are running out of things to send Kiev suggesting their own stocks were low or are now depleted, but instead they will ignore common sense and just add the costs of the extra equipment needed on top of existing spending because those guys stealing money from the system wont take a pay cut now...

This is a good chance to evaluate what is working well and what they could use more of... with a new defensive line and the potential for the Orcs to move forward into urban areas the potential of suicide drones with small warheads that kill the target but do little other damage seems to be significant.

So Russia increased its defense budget to $100 billion this year.

Yes, but Russia has significantly increased its military production this year. So defense spending will increase significantly.