MOSCOW, May 20-RIA Novosti. In Russia, there are new airline complexes, they have no analogues in the world, combat surface and submarine ships due to a prudent attitude to finance, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"We have new aviation systems that have no analogues in the world. Combat surface and submarine ships. The most modern. Unmanned vehicles. At the expense of what? Due to the prudent attitude to the funds that the state allocates for defense. Through the preservation and development of scientific schools. Training of engineering personnel. Due to the concentration of administrative and financial resources on the most relevant, significant areas of development of the armed forces. And due to the ability to determine these areas by our specialists, " he said at a meeting of the Russian organizing Committee "Victory".
"Due to all these factors - well, you can still talk about many of them-but nevertheless we manage to maintain our armed forces, without militarizing the budget, at the proper level. We will continue to act in this way," Putin stressed.