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Russia's Military Budget 2004 - 2008
MOSCOW, February 26 2008 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Defense Ministry will spend around one trillion rubles ($40 bln) of federal budget funds in 2008, 20% more than in 2007, a ministry official said on Tuesday.
"The Defense Ministry will spend a little less than one trillion rubles in 2008, which is about 20% more than last year," Deputy Defense Minister Lyubov Kudelina said.
She also said that in 2008-10, military spending would account for 15.5-16% of aggregate federal budget expenditure.
She said most of the funds would be spent on the maintenance of the armed forces, the procurement and repair of military hardware, scientific and research work, and construction.
The official did not say how much would be spent this year on the procurement of new military hardware, but last year's figure was over 300 billion rubles ($12 billion), 20% higher than in 2006.
Russia has downsized its Armed Forces to about 1.1 million personnel, but military spending has increased dramatically under President Putin. Defense spending is set to total 1.18 trillion rubles ($45 billion) by 2010.
2007. Russia to boost funding of state defense order
The financing of Russia's state defense order will exceed RUR300bn (approx. USD11.22bn) in 2007, a 29-percent increase on the current year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told a military industry commission meeting on Thursday.
State funding of the state defense order increases stably each year, and the rate of growth is considerable. In 2007, it will be up by 29 percent, or more than RUR300bn (approx. USD11.22bn) in absolute figures, compared to 2006, the minister stressed.
"By defining the main parameters of the 2007 state defense order, we are in fact commencing the implementation of the new state armament program until 2015," Ivanov noted.
The Defense Minister also said that more than half of the financing allocated for the defense order would go towards facilitating and implementing this program. Because of this, the military industry commission will take additional measures to control efficient spending of resources and ensure an adequate advance in the technological intensity of the armed forces.
In the conditions of stable budget funding, the task of planning the development of the armament system becomes the priority, along with the management of the entire process of forming, placing and ultimately executing the state defense order, Ivanov concluded.
It is worth mentioning that Russia is spending more on defense each year, although it still lags behind in this respect from the leaders: the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, and China.
In 2007, the state defense order will grow by 20% to reach 302.7 billion rubles (over $10 billion). Out of this sum, 145 billion rubles (about $5 billion) will be spent on the purchase of new arms and military hardware. This is a 22% increase over this year. Expenses on repairs will be 60 billion rubles ($2.2 billion). They have gone up by 15.7%. R&D will receive[m1] 98 billion rubles ($3.5 billion) - a 20% growth. In addition, 14.6 billion rubles ($500 million) will be spent on re-equipping the internal troops and Interior Ministry bodies.
These figures show that in 2007 the purchases of arms and hardware should surpass arms exports, as in 2006. In other words, the army and navy will start receiving reliable weapons, which can cope with armed conflicts of the 21st century. This fact alone instills with optimism those who serve and those who work for the Russian armed forces.
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Russian Defence Procurement in 2007 © CAST
NDP?2007 marks the threshold of a new practice for the arms-procurement system: from 2008 the national defence procurement will be defined for a three-year period.
The tables below show only known purchases of arms and military equipment for the Russian armed forces, not including purchases for law enforcement and security agencies like the Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service and others. Published orders for repairs and modernization are also included, but R&D contracts
are not.
Table 1. Strategic Nuclear Forces
Name
Number of units
Notes
Producer
New Purchases
Topol M ICBM
7
4 silo-based and 3 mobile
Votkinskiy factory
Bulava R-30 SLBM
N/A
For testing
Votkinskiy factory
Sineva R-29PMU SLBM
N/A
Probably 10, considering the quantity of TopolM ordered out of the total of 17 ICBMs purchased this year. Other publications suggest 12
Krasnoyarsk Machine-building Factory
Table 2. Space Forces
Name
Number of units
Cost per unit,
million USD
Notes
Producer
New Purchases
Launch vehicle
4
N/A
At least one launch, that of the Soyuz-2-1B, was observed in August-September 2007
Satellite
4
N/A
Possibly to include one new generation missile attack warning satellite. Launch planned for the second half of 2007
MOSCOW, February 26 2008 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Defense Ministry will spend around one trillion rubles ($40 bln) of federal budget funds in 2008, 20% more than in 2007, a ministry official said on Tuesday.
"The Defense Ministry will spend a little less than one trillion rubles in 2008, which is about 20% more than last year," Deputy Defense Minister Lyubov Kudelina said.
She also said that in 2008-10, military spending would account for 15.5-16% of aggregate federal budget expenditure.
She said most of the funds would be spent on the maintenance of the armed forces, the procurement and repair of military hardware, scientific and research work, and construction.
The official did not say how much would be spent this year on the procurement of new military hardware, but last year's figure was over 300 billion rubles ($12 billion), 20% higher than in 2006.
Russia has downsized its Armed Forces to about 1.1 million personnel, but military spending has increased dramatically under President Putin. Defense spending is set to total 1.18 trillion rubles ($45 billion) by 2010.
2007. Russia to boost funding of state defense order
The financing of Russia's state defense order will exceed RUR300bn (approx. USD11.22bn) in 2007, a 29-percent increase on the current year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told a military industry commission meeting on Thursday.
State funding of the state defense order increases stably each year, and the rate of growth is considerable. In 2007, it will be up by 29 percent, or more than RUR300bn (approx. USD11.22bn) in absolute figures, compared to 2006, the minister stressed.
"By defining the main parameters of the 2007 state defense order, we are in fact commencing the implementation of the new state armament program until 2015," Ivanov noted.
The Defense Minister also said that more than half of the financing allocated for the defense order would go towards facilitating and implementing this program. Because of this, the military industry commission will take additional measures to control efficient spending of resources and ensure an adequate advance in the technological intensity of the armed forces.
In the conditions of stable budget funding, the task of planning the development of the armament system becomes the priority, along with the management of the entire process of forming, placing and ultimately executing the state defense order, Ivanov concluded.
It is worth mentioning that Russia is spending more on defense each year, although it still lags behind in this respect from the leaders: the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, and China.
In 2007, the state defense order will grow by 20% to reach 302.7 billion rubles (over $10 billion). Out of this sum, 145 billion rubles (about $5 billion) will be spent on the purchase of new arms and military hardware. This is a 22% increase over this year. Expenses on repairs will be 60 billion rubles ($2.2 billion). They have gone up by 15.7%. R&D will receive[m1] 98 billion rubles ($3.5 billion) - a 20% growth. In addition, 14.6 billion rubles ($500 million) will be spent on re-equipping the internal troops and Interior Ministry bodies.
These figures show that in 2007 the purchases of arms and hardware should surpass arms exports, as in 2006. In other words, the army and navy will start receiving reliable weapons, which can cope with armed conflicts of the 21st century. This fact alone instills with optimism those who serve and those who work for the Russian armed forces.
---
Russian Defence Procurement in 2007 © CAST
NDP?2007 marks the threshold of a new practice for the arms-procurement system: from 2008 the national defence procurement will be defined for a three-year period.
The tables below show only known purchases of arms and military equipment for the Russian armed forces, not including purchases for law enforcement and security agencies like the Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service and others. Published orders for repairs and modernization are also included, but R&D contracts
are not.
Table 1. Strategic Nuclear Forces
Name
Number of units
Notes
Producer
New Purchases
Topol M ICBM
7
4 silo-based and 3 mobile
Votkinskiy factory
Bulava R-30 SLBM
N/A
For testing
Votkinskiy factory
Sineva R-29PMU SLBM
N/A
Probably 10, considering the quantity of TopolM ordered out of the total of 17 ICBMs purchased this year. Other publications suggest 12
Krasnoyarsk Machine-building Factory
Table 2. Space Forces
Name
Number of units
Cost per unit,
million USD
Notes
Producer
New Purchases
Launch vehicle
4
N/A
At least one launch, that of the Soyuz-2-1B, was observed in August-September 2007
Satellite
4
N/A
Possibly to include one new generation missile attack warning satellite. Launch planned for the second half of 2007
