More than 19 trillion rubles will be spent on the purchase of new weapons, equipment and modernization of the units in service, from 2011 to 2020.
First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Vladimir Popovkin announced the main directions of the Russian state program for the development of weapons.
Key priorities
Strategic Missile Forces
- The Russian Defense Ministry plans to develop a heavy liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile to replace the RS-18 (Stiletto) and RS-20 (Satan). According to V. Popovkin: "The maximum possible deployment of warheads on the Topol is three warheads, and on a heavy missile - 10 warheads. It is already possible to calculate the effectiveness of heavy missiles."
- Tu-160 strategic missile-carrying aircraft will be modernized; 16 units remain in service with the RF Armed Forces.
- By 2020, 8 nuclear submarines armed with Bulava SLBMs will be commissioned (moreover, the Bulava SLBM will be put into service this year).
10% of the allocated funds will be spent on R&D, i.e. about 2 trillion rubles. Almost 80% will go towards the purchase of new weapons.
Fleet
- The fleet is promised 100 new ships, including 20 submarines, 35 corvettes and 15 frigates. Popovkin did not specify what other 30 military courts are in question.
- The Black Sea Fleet has been promised 18 ships - including Project 636 Varshavyanka submarines, Project 11356 frigates and Project 22350 frigates, as well as Project 11711 large landing ships.
- The state program also includes the construction of 4 Mistral-class helicopter carriers.
Air Force, Army Aviation
- In 2011, they promise to put into service more than 100 helicopters: including new transport helicopters Mi-26, attack Mi-28 "Night Hunter" and Ka-52 "Alligator", light "Ansat-U". In total, they promise to supply 1000 helicopters to the Armed Forces by 2020.
- The Air Force V. Popovkin promised 600 new aircraft, even earlier, in early December 2010, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, Lieutenant General Igor Sadofiev said that by 2020 it is planned to purchase and modernize about two thousand aircraft and helicopters "with a constantly increasing annual rate ". The share of modernized equipment is expected to be about 400 units. The plans for the purchase of aircraft for 2011 provide for a number of Su-27SM, Su-30M2, Su-35S fighters, Yak-130 training aircraft, and Su-34 front-line bombers. In addition, in 2013, the Russian Ministry of Defense is expected to conclude a contract with Sukhoi for the supply of ten prototypes of the promising T-50 fighter (PAK FA) for weapons testing, and in 2016 it will begin the serial purchase of such aircraft. In addition to the pilot batch, it is planned to purchase another 60 PAK FA.
In 2010, four Su-27 squadrons were modernized.
- New Il-112, Il-476 and modernized Il-76MD planes will enter service with the Military Transport Aviation in 2011-2012. In 2014, the An-124 "Ruslan" and the first of the ordered An-70s will begin to arrive. Some of the aircraft will be delivered in the interests of the Airborne Forces, the Airborne Forces intend to buy 40 An-70 and modernized Il-76.
Air defense-PRO-VKO
- Within the framework of the state armament program until 2020, it is planned to purchase about 10 divisions of the latest S-500 anti-aircraft missile systems, they will become the basis of the aerospace defense forces that are being created in Russia. Tests of the S-500 will begin in 2015.
- Part of the VKO will be the S-400 complexes, of which 56 units are planned to be purchased by 2020. Currently, one regiment armed with S-400 is on duty, the second is conducting tests.
Nothing was said about the ground forces, only once again they were "delighted" by announcing that negotiations were underway with Paris on the purchase of a limited batch of "infantryman of the future" equipment of the FELIN type.
