MOSCOW. Feb 7 (Interfax-AVN) - Some 5 trillion rubles will be spent
on the implementation of the arms program in 2007 - 2015, Russian Vice
Prime Minster and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said.
"It is expected that 34 launching pads and command posts, as well
as more than 50 land-mobile Topol-M systems, will be put on alert," the
minister said told the State Duma during the 'parliamentary hour'.
Moreover, it is expected that Russian armed forces will acquire 50
Tupolev Tu-160 and Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bombers.
The construction of the Angara and Soyuz-2 launching systems and
"full restoration of the closed peripheral radar field of the system to
alert on missile attacks on Russia" are expected as well, the minister
said.
"Forty tank, 97 motorized and 50 airborne battalions will be fully
reequipped. Five missile brigades will be equipped with the latest
missile system Iskander-M," he said, adding that 100,000 vehicles and 31
vessels will be bought for the Russian armed forces by 2015.
"Some 45% of equipment will be replaced within the framework of the
program," he said.
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5 000 000 000 000 rubros = 145 billioes de euros
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