Russian Ground Forces: News #2

Austin wrote:Any idea what the platform is called and what it is used for ?

Is this on Boomerang ?

MOSCOW, Sept. 11 - RIA Novosti. Scope of state financing of new armament program of the Russian Federation on the 2016-2025 years will be comparable to the funding of the current program, said on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.


The volume of the current state program to 2020 is 20 trillion rubles.


"They (volumes) are comparable," - Rogozin said on Thursday on the TV channel "Russia 24".

GarryB wrote:Things wont get cheaper, but hopefully performance per rouble should dramatically increase.

It will be interesting to see what a modern 21st century for designed and used for defence will actually look like... the world has never seen that before.

KRASNOARMEYSK / Moscow region /, 17 September.  / ITAR-TASS /.  Russia's Defense Ministry will reduce the number of types of weapons and military equipment, which is used by the Russian army.



Such changes are planned in the new state armaments program for 2016-2025 years, told Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov.


"The main directions will be in a fairly sharp decrease in facial features of weapons and military equipment. We optimize type. Series (weapons and equipment) is already defined," - said Borisov.


According to him, the state program will identify specific targets and a half years based on the capabilities of industry and science.  The deputy head of the Ministry of Defense said that the military wants to "guide the industry on the issue of unification of different solutions."  "This is a bus-modular design with maximum harmonization and reduction of the range of products used," - said the deputy minister.


Reducing the number of types of weapons and military equipment should reduce the cost of its repair and maintenance, as well as reduce the cost of training the military.

The state defense order will not be sequestered

Borisov also noted that the state defense order for the years 2015-2017 will not be subject to sequestration.  "No seizures, severe decrease in the volume is not. Draft budget provides almost passport details," - he said.

At the same time, the deputy minister said, it does not mean that the Defense Ministry does not redistribute volumes within the program itself.


"So far, thank God, the supreme commander of the efforts of our government and the three-year plan for 2015-2017 years is a very close approximation to the passport data state armaments program 2020, which is the key dynamic re our troops on the modern and advanced weapons and military equipment," - Borisov said.


He also noted that the program of import substitution is not fundamentally affected the state program of armaments and defense procurement.

GarryB wrote:Things wont get cheaper, but hopefully performance per rouble should dramatically increase.

It will be interesting to see what a modern 21st century Army designed and used for defence will actually look like... the world has never seen that before.

He recalled that on 9 May 2015 at the Victory Parade for the first time will show the main tank "Armata", but not only him. "We will show a whole range of equipment, brand new tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled guns, automotive special equipment," - he said on the radio "Echo of Moscow"

zg18 wrote:

Bastion-P ASh , Crimea

MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Defense Ministry plans to purchase more than 11,000 of new armored vehicles, as well as 14,000 military vehicles for other purposes, providing the ground forces with 70 percent of modern equipment, Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces, Col.Gen. Oleg Salyukov told journalists Wednesday.

"In accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, by 2020 the ground forces will be 70 percent equipped with new modern weaponry and military hardware. In total, more than 5,000 new and some 6,000 modernized units of armored vehicles and military hardware, as well as 14,000 military vehicles, are to be purchased," Salyukov said.

According to him, the Russian Land Forces will receive T-72B3 tanks, BTR-82A armored personnel carriers, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, and modernized BMP-2 vehicles.

The commander-in-chief said that the Russian Defense Ministry had begun to purchase BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles again.

"The BMP-3 are purchased again, and starting next year they will be delivered in sets to ground forces units," he said.

In 2010, BMP-3 vehicles were criticized by the ministry and their delivery was suspended over inferior quality.

They been serving for a long time already. Unless I am missing something here.

I doubt they will be allowed to choose where they serve

Most likely far away from Chechnya