Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu named priority tasks for equipping the army next year. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Dmitry Kornev commented on the plans of the defense department.
The head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu at the board of the Ministry announced plans to equip the army for next year.
According to the Minister, it is planned to supply more than a thousand modern armored and artillery weapons to the Ground Forces, Airborne Forces and coastal forces of the Navy, 257 new and modernized aircraft, five divisional sets of the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system to the Aerospace Forces and Navy.
The Navy plans to accept five submarines, 11 surface ships, three combat boats, as well as a new nuclear-powered submarine of the Borei–A project - Generalissimo Suvorov, Shoigu noted.
The share of modern weapons in the strategic nuclear forces has exceeded 89%, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
On the air of Sputnik radio, the chief editor of the website commented on the plans of the Ministry of Defense MilitaryRussia.ru Dmitry Kornev. According to him, Russia is following the path of qualitative improvement of its weapons, not striving for quantitative superiority.
