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Friday, May 09, 2014

Russia to quadruple precision strategic weapon platforms by 2021

T-50 PAK-FARussia will quadruple its arsenal of long-range precision delivery platforms in the next seven years to strengthen the country's strategic deterrent, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday, according to RIA Novosti.

"Taking into account the role and importance of long-range high-precision weapons in strategic deterrence, we are planning to quadruple by 2021 the number of carriers of high-accuracy weaponry," Shoigu said.

Igor Korotchenko, a leading Russian military expert, said that submarines, fighter jets and strategic bombers were all included as high-precision weapon platforms, and their total number would quadruple.

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4 comments:

  1. SuchindranathAiyer9/5/14 09:02

    Was this, perhaps, just intelligence gathering
    mission with the NATO "murmurs" just so much wind in the sails?

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  2. SuchindranathAiyer9/5/14 09:04

    Integrated with robotics and sensors, this could be
    the Next Generation mine field India needs at all points of the border, over
    land and sea..Or, at the least, with remote control capability?

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  3. SuchindranathAiyer9/5/14 09:05

    Hopefully, the rascals who rule India won't buy Syorskys
    for all the Neta-Babus instead of fighters and air defense systems.

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  4. SuchindranathAiyer9/5/14 09:06

    The moot point is: Why didn't Russia do so, way
    back, when the US announced its "Missile Shield"?

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