Juno Beach Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20100217/157911289.html I am not sure what Putin means by modern weapons. That being the case, it is not possible to understand what 30% to 70% upgrade to modern weapons means! Cordially, JB 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Dumb Vladimir, modernism is so 1930's! He should be pushing for postmodern weapons by now! Or post-postmodern... I would presume that the figures refer to the number of units that are equipped with stuff that meets Russian army's current standards. Eg. GLONASS (Russian military's GPS), current generation night vision equipment, kevlar vests and so on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
souldierz Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Putin has grown to become a very powerful and influential man.And I'm sure when he says modern weapons, hes talking about weapons that could rival the Western countries hardware, and give them a real hard time.He's looking to even things up a bit so to say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitchen frizzy Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Still the obsession with military parity, whether affordable or not. Some things haven't changed. Will he revive the KGB? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 FSB has been around since 1995. But actually the Institute of Contemporary Development, which Dmitri Medvedev founded after he was elected as president, recommended last year in their report that FSB be put down together with Interior Ministry (MVD) and many other organs, and halve the army size and move from conscription to professional army and also form a National Guard and municipal militias. http://rt.com/Politics/2010-02-03/russia-development-concept-insor.html It is unlikely to happen, but reveals what kinds of issues are being debated in the Kremlin. And no, I don't think that they concern themselves with military parity - the armed forces are in a too sorry state for that to be of even remotely possible. Probably Kremlin would like to have a Swiss pocket knife that would work in all kinds of internal conflicts like in Chechnya, limited wars like that with Georgia, peace keeping operations like in Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, keep NATO humble, bully smaller neighbours if they seem to get too cocky, guard national interests abroad (deploying airborne troops to Kosovo, hunting pirates, usual neo-imperialist overseas power projecting stuff), remain prepared to defend territory conventionally and also back that up with nukes, and be able to claim oil fields in the Arctic Sea. But having all of that is unlikely to result in a pocket sized tool, especially in a country where generals are more used to thinking in terms of fronts, not brigades or battalions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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