The head of state announced a new military doctrine, and personally led the military-industrial complex
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By December this year in Russia should be prepared by a new military doctrine. This was announced yesterday by President Vladimir Putin. Its provisions form the basis for a promising State Armaments Program (SAP) to 2025. This program will identify new targets in the development of advanced weapons, which will be based on a projection of military threats in the next 30 years. He also headed the Military Industrial Commission (MIC).
«We need to clearly calculate the potential threats to the military security of Russia, – said Vladimir Putin. – Each of them should be sufficient, adequate response. We have said many times and warned that we are forced to, it will be forced to take appropriate response measures to ensure our security ».
We recall that a few days ago one of the authors present current military doctrine, the former Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Yuri Baluyevsky, speaking of the new doctrine, and said about the internal threat to the country: “Attempts to blow up the state … by indirect actions were and are very dangerous ».
In the meantime, it seems, the process of supplying the army with new types of military equipment and arms tightened. Individual projects are calculated to 2020 LG 2020 will be extended until 2025, moreover, have to increase the amount of funding.
Meeting on the prospects for the modernization of the army and navy, previously, as a rule, held under the auspices of the government.
But recently the problem attended to the head of state. Yesterday became the reality of rumors about a possible resubordination Putin Military-Industrial Commission, which previously led by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. President personally now heads the commission. It is the responsibility of the military-industrial complex includes the development of the main parameters of the new state armaments program, which runs until 2025. The update LG every five years is not unusual. So it was determined by government decree in 2007. Yesterday’s meeting on the LG-2025, was, of course, routine. And the president’s attention to the program understandable. In Russia, is gaining momentum and economic crisis, which is exacerbated due to the sanctions imposed by the West and the Ukrainian leadership. Manufacture of weapons and military equipment (AME) in Russia strongly tied to cooperation with the Ukrainian defense enterprises.
According to a member of the Academy of Military Sciences Colonel Edward Rodyukov from bursting cooperation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation in the sphere of military-industrial complex will suffer 79 859 Ukrainian and Russian defense enterprises. “The share of Ukraine in the Russian military-industrial complex (MIC) is small – about 3.5%. But almost half of Ukraine provided Russian gas turbine powerplants and gearboxes for warships. Almost 90% of it provided the need for engines for military helicopters. Many Ukrainian engines installed on our aircraft. For example, they are equipped with new combat training aircraft Yak-130 and Antonov aircraft family, including upgraded now the largest military transport aircraft An-124 (“Ruslan”). Now, when the President of Ukraine issued a decree forbade the military-technical cooperation with Russia, many programs LG 2020 stuck “- said the expert. In his opinion, it is, of course, will make their own adjustments to the implementation of SAP.
On the program of import substitution, according to Dmitry Rogozin, will take at least three years. According to the experts – five to seven years. It is possible that many of the projects for the production and supply of arms will be performed after 2020, ie perekochuyut a new SAP-2025. This may require new investments in SAP. For example, the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) estimates that Russia will need 33 billion rubles., To compensate for the negative effects of a broken cooperation with the Ukrainian defense industry. How much should you spend to establish their own production of engines for ships, helicopters and planes to replace Ukrainian, not officially reported. But already made adjustments to the military budget for the next three years towards its increase. In the years 2015-2016, defense spending will be more than 4% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Note that most NATO countries spend on their defense to less than 2% of GDP. As can be seen from the core of the Budget Policy for 2015 and the planning period of 2016 and 2017′s, in the next two to three years will be significantly curtailed previously planned expenditures on the national economy (40-50%). Only military programs will not be subject to sequestration.
These costs are likely to be already included in the new LG-2025. According to Dmitry Rogozin, the LG-2025 project includes 12 weapons programs, one of which – to ensure that weapons, military and special equipment of law enforcement agencies. Feature of the state program he calls the section related to fundamental research, applied and engineering works on the development of advanced weapons and military equipment. Deputy Prime Minister assured that funding for the new state program will be comparable with the financing of the state program for 2011-2020.
The chief editor of Moscow Defense Brief Mikhail Barabanov believes that the growth of military spending in Russia ahead of the country’s GDP growth. But the growth of the military budget does not guarantee the full implementation of the SAP, as many defense companies technologically backward. In this case, there is still a rise in prices for military products, which also negatively affects the parameters of the defense industry.
The Deputy Director of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis Alexander Hramchihin sure to complete rearmament money is still not enough and the LG-2025 to be financed in large sizes. However, as Putin said, “we will be based solely on the realities of our capabilities and we will not inflate our military spending».
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