At the opening of the Army-2015 forum, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said: -Colonel Sergei Chemezov (general director of the corporation "Rostec" - approx. "VO"), to learn how to handle new equipment. Therefore, we are planning to create a training center for colleagues who will purchase this or that weapon from us”.
And here are the buyers from different countries, who studied the latest models with undisguised curiosity, opened various hatches and doors, sat in the cabins of combat vehicles, and happily fired from brand new Kalash.
Well, everything is clear with the military. And what can ordinary citizens buy here? First of all, the attention was drawn to the store "Army of Russia", the network of which was opened throughout the country. I tried on the complete set. Seems not bad.
Boots m 516-2 - 5290 rubles. Tactical trousers, kink color - 2460 rubles. Children's T-shirt "Polite Bears" - 750 rubles. Jacket "like Sergei Lavrov's" with a leather vest with fur - 82,000 rubles.
TV presenter Leonid Yakubovich met. He wore a stylish black cloak, and a pretty blonde carried an umbrella over him. In a personal conversation, Leonid told the VO correspondent that he was already aware of the problems of the Simferopol Aerosport Club, about which our site wrote a month ago Voennoye Obozreniye. And I am even ready to solve them somehow, since I have already taken off from this airfield more than once, but "everyone has disappeared somewhere."
Leonid held another sale on the forum. This time it was the sale of unused military equipment. Now the main site for these purposes will be permanently operating in the Patriot Park. The list (fully available on the website of the Ministry of Defense) includes hundreds of items from tarpaulin boots and old-style general's caps to field kitchens, tanks, cars and power plants.
Dmitry Kurakin, Director of the Property Relations Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, told the VO correspondent that any inhabitant of planet Earth can participate in the auction if he presents the necessary documents personally and pays a deposit, which is 10% of the initial cost of the lot.
He also said: “Today all 10 lots are gone. There was a real struggle, excitement. We only sold cars and gained something about 1.2 million rubles. Leonid Yakubovich set the tone by inventing a "chip" with a bottle of champagne, which costs 200 rubles in the store, and, as a result, the auction reached 5, 5 thousand, and it was presented to the winner from the Ministry of Defense of Russia with wishes of good luck.
We have been disposing of trash in our warehouses, bases and arsenals for a long time. Since 2011, we have sold "engine" (several thousand units of road transport, trailers, and so on) and scrap metal (almost 400 thousand tons) for as much as 5.5 billion rubles. But even this is not enough. This is a key problem for the military because the amount of unnecessary equipment is not decreasing. As in a children's fairy tale, remember, "Pot, don't cook!" What is the novelty?
We are trying to correct the shortcomings and intensify this process as much as possible. Today we have the opportunity to simplify it and get away from many bureaucratic procedures. We want to significantly simplify the process, make it more adequate. We are preparing a more radical proposal for scrap metal to the government in order to be able to send it to factories as regular suppliers."
