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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Russia to prioritize modern weaponry in new arms acquisition program


Russia will focus on purchases of advanced weaponry in a new state arms procurement program until 2020, First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said.

"The state arms procurement program until 2020 prioritizes the acquisition of advanced weaponry. Their share is about 70 percent," Popovkin said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper published on Friday.

Popovkin said the Russian government had allocated 22 trillion rubles ($730 billion) on the new program, which includes purchases of eight missile-carrying strategic submarines, equipped with Bulava ballistic missiles, 600 aircraft, S-400 and S-500 air defense systems.

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