... time, NATO’s overall supremacy over Russia is more significant than that of the United States and its allies over China in the Far East, making Russia fear the outcome of a potential conflict in this area.
Such an awareness of the inadequacies of Russia’s Armed Forces dictates that the country turn back to the operational strategic approaches employed in similar situations in the past. As a result, the defence system that is now being deployed in the Arctic region to set up the bastions, (so-called “Protected ...
... a higher and more autonomous status.
Significantly, this is where Russia has been well ahead of the curve, as the country’s space forces have always enjoyed a relatively high degree of autonomy. It has reported directly to the General Staff of the Armed Forces since the 1980s, and in the 1990s and in the 2000s, it existed as a separate branch of the military. Currently, however, Russia is in the process of partly rolling back this process, with the space forces, the anti-aircraft defence force and even the military aviation being absorbed by the Air Force to form the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The new military branches will command ...
... some promising pilot projects in this field. Vehicles of the Kurganets and Boomerang families raise a number of concerns, chiefly due to the obvious delay in putting them into production and the resulting lag behind the key adversaries in equipping the armed forces.
Alexander Yermakov:
From Tanks and Deserts to Missiles and Tropical Islands
However, there is one area where Russia definitely leads the pack, and that is in the development of the first real new-generation tank. Heavy APCs from the Armata family may have counterparts abroad (the Israeli Namer and possibly the German Lynx), but there is only one tank with innovative ...
... programs will be preserved. In addition, existing contracts concluded for the production of military equipment for other types of armed forces will be executed in order to provide support for production enterprises. At the same time, it is possible that some ... ... taking into account the probable early disposal of various obsolete assets and the ability to order new ones to replace them.
Russia: Revising Priorities
Given the general economic environment, the situation for Russia is different: the ruble is not a ...
