Vladimir Putin expects new image of Russian army (Gives $650 Billions to military)

http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/12/14/36826510.html ^

[kronos77]

20 trillion roubles (over $650 billion) will be allocated to equipping the Russian army in the next 10 years. At a meeting dedicated to establishing the state armament programme for 2011-2020, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called this figure “frightful”, but the Russian army should become completely modernized as a result. “We must finally overcome the legacy of those years when the Army and Navy were hugely underfinanced”, declared Vladimir Putin at the meeting in the Arkhangelsk Region.

Vladimir Putin visited the town of Severodvinsk to look at the new fourth generation Alexander Nevsky nuclear submarine and also to highlight the key features of the new armament programme, a strategic document. Severodvinsk is the centre of nuclear ship-building in Russia. The Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk is the only manufacturer of nuclear submarines in the country. It has already been operating for 70 years. Aboard the Alexander Nevsky nuclear cruiser, the head of the government was greeted by the crew.

The prime minister stressed that the whole of the Russian armed forces should be rigged with this class of modern high quality equipment. By 2015, the share of modern equipment in the army, navy and air force is to grow by 30%, and by 2020 by 70%. The state armament programme will form the basis for that. It should be completed by the end of this year. The prime minister asked the participants in the meeting to work hard on the document, in spite of the holiday season festivities. He mentioned the key areas which shape the new image of the Russian Army and Navy.

[kronos77]

Moscow, Russian Federation (AHN) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has disclosed that the Russian Armed Forces will receive more than 1,300 types of weaponry by 2020.

The weapons will be acquired as part of a draft arms procurement program. “We will need to set up new or expand the existing production lines to manufacture 220 of the new types of weaponry,” Putin said.

His comments came during a meeting on the program, which is likely to be adopted by the end of this year.

The most influential politician of the country further said that Moscow would earmark $640.7 billion for weapons procurement.

This amount is three times more than what has been allocated for the ongoing 2007-2015 program.

The latest program will allow Russia to upgrade nearly 11 percent of military equipment per year.

Russia will also be able to increase its modern weaponry share to 70 percent by 2020. Putin allocated a budget of $150.7 billion for the modernization of the Russian Navy.

“We now have more money and there are possibilities to expedite the construction [of submarines],” Putin said, who later visited the under-constructed Alexander Nevsky nuclear submarine at the Sevmash shipyard in northern Russian town of Severodvinsk.

[mad puppy]

They know they have a fight coming against Islam.

[Kenny Bunk]

They are also changing uniforms.....

"Igor, you change with Vladimir, Evgeny you change with Pyotr....."

Seriously, I think they may be going for a smaller, individually better equipped, and better trained force. They got seriously hammered in Afghanistan -

[Deb]

Does this mean the Generals won’t be riding the bus anymore?

[Chode]

stimulus the Russian way...

[Timocrat]

Putin said, who later visited the under-constructed Alexander Nevsky nuclear submarine

Lower bidder got the job again ?

[Thunder90]

This is directed at the United States.... And the buildup is happening far faster than they are listing here.

[cunning_fish]

>>>>>>>>They got seriously hammered in Afghanistan>>>>>>>>>>>>
A popular lovely piece of government propaganda to make good publicity out of the fact that they have funded Al-Qaeda&Teleban with American taxpayers’ money.

It is ablolutely ignoring the fact that Russian ‘loss’ was actually a preplanned well orginized withdrawal and a pro-Soviet government in A-stan lasted years after that. It has actually outlived pro-Soviet government in Moscow and if had access to Russian aid it could still screw Taleban (still funded with American money from US-allied Pakistan).

Huge contrast to Vietnam, isn’t it?

It is barely comparable to modern Coalition vs Al-Qaeda&Taleban either. There is no superpower to supply insurgents with latest weapons to deter NATO technological superiority in A-stan and Iraq right now.

[neutronsgalore]

This is directed at the United States.... And the buildup is happening far faster than they are listing here.

Why bother? 20-30 years from now China will be a far greater threat to them, and the USA is no threat to them at all. Maybe they're building them to SELL to the Chinese.

[Thunder90]

Islam is too divided to mount an offensive against any other country except Israel, and they failed consistently to do that.

[ETL]

Russia, the ChiComs, Chavez, Iran, N.Korea, and Obama are definitely conspiring to create a “new world order” with a significantly weakened United States.

Thanks for the ping.

[ETL]

All this “kronos77” character ever posts is pro-Russia BS. I can’t believe they let him continue with this crap.

[ETL]

Russia's Medvedev hails "comrade" Obama

Associated Foreign Press (AFP) ^ | April 2, 2009 | Anna Smolchenko

"Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade" Thursday after their first face-to-face talks"

http://www.france24.com/en/20090402-russias-medvedev-hails-comrade-obama

April 1, 2009:
"Obama, Medvedev pledge new era of relations":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090401/wl_afp/usrussiadiplomacynuclear_20090401152002
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President Obama and Venezuela dictator Hugo
Chavez at the 2009 Summit of the Americas in Trinidad.
Note the "soul bro" handshake. (my caption)

Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit:
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/17/2698451-obama-chavez-shake-hands-at-americas-summit
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From the Russian News and Information Agency:
July 27, 2006
"'I am determined to expand relations with Russia,' Chavez, known as an outspoken critic of what he calls the United States' unilateralism, told the Russian leader, adding that his determination stemmed from their shared vision of the global order.":
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060727/51913498.html
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“We are creating a new world, a balanced world. A new world order, a multipolar world,” Chavez told reporters during a visit to Communist China, one of many. His “new world order” includes [RUSSIA], China, Iran,... and a significantly weakened United States, he explained.

Resurgent Communism in Latin America
by Alex Newman, March 16, 2010:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/south-america-mainmenu-37/3122-resurgent-communism-in-latin-america?tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed092605a.cfm

[neutronsgalore]

And your point is....?

[REDWOOD99]

He doesn’t love to saves the money?

[neutronsgalore]

Russia, the ChiComs, Chavez, Iran, N.Korea, and Obama are definitely conspiring to create a “new world order” with a significantly weakened United States.

Most of this country's weakened state is self-inflicted, from continuing on the same obsolete policy paths after the fall of the USSR. Once communism was proven to be the garbage that it is with the collapse of the Soviets, crippling it's ability to be an offensive threat, there was no longer any need to keep foreign economies propped up. The policies of free-trade which have undermined this nation should've been phased out.

Russia is only a threat so far as it provides tech & resources to China. Like Japan, I think they've figured out that the only way to avoid being eaten by the Dragon in the future is to be it's buddy, and eventually it's pet.

[Kenny Bunk]

It is ablolutely ignoring the fact that Russian ‘loss’ was actually a preplanned well orginized withdrawal and a pro-Soviet government in A-stan lasted years after that.

It has actually outlived pro-Soviet government in Moscow and if had access to Russian aid it could still screw Taleban (still funded with American money from US-allied Pakistan).

Thanks. I had forgotten for a moment that in our haste to embarrass the Russkis in A-stan, we opened up multiple cans of Islamic worms, which are still crawling and biting us in the ass! However, from a military organizational point of view, IMHO the Russkis screwed up in A-stan. They never really got the hang of it, and I also have the impression that they did not take very good care of the men in the field.

[mad puppy]

“Islam is too divided to mount an offensive against any other country except Israel, and they failed consistently to do that.”

I disagree. Islam certainly offended me on 9-11. Granted, they don’t fight in ways that most wars have been fought but they are very much on the offensive in every corner of the world including these United States.

The fact that they are divided up into so many smaller cells is the only thing keeping them alive.

[ETL]

Russia is only a threat so far as it provides tech & resources to China.

You don't have the slightest friggin idea what you're talking about, do you?