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Tanks in GPV-2027
According to a February 13 report from Vedomosti’s Ivan Safronov, Russia’s Ground Troops could receive 900 T-14 and T-90M tanks before the current State Armaments Program (GPV) ends in 2027. The article is paywalled, but Bmpd recapped its contents.
Nine hundred — 500 T-14 and 400 T-90M — seems quite an optimistic forecast.
According to Safronov’s story, a source close to the Russian MOD said…
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OPK Write-Off
President Vladimir Putin has apparently agreed to a major write-off of Russian defense industry debt. It’s a significant story not receiving much attention.
Putin with VTB chief Kostin in August 2019
The decision came in a secret presidential ukaz at the end of 2019. VTB chief Andrey Kostin broke the news in a late January interview with Rossiya 24television at the World Economic Forum in…
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What They May Get, 2020
What They May Get, 2020
S-350 Vityaz launcher
In his year-end report, Russian Defense Minister Shoygu not only publicized what the MOD received by way of arms and other equipment in 2019, he also mentioned what the military is supposed to get this year.
According to Shoygu, it will receive:
Twenty-two ICBM launchers with RS-24 Yars (SS-27 Mod 2) and Avangard “hypersonic glide vehicles.” The latter is the…
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What They Got, 2019 Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu’s address to the MOD Collegium on December 24 began with de rigueur descriptions of how the U.S.
Russia’s Second Best Protected City St. Petersburg is probably now Russia’s second best protected city in terms of air defense (as common sense would dictate).
Motovilikha’s Year
2S1 Gvozdika 122-mm SP howitzers leaving the factory in Perm
In September, we checked in on Motovilikha and its contract to produce 20 Tornado-S multiple launch rocket systems for the Russian MOD in 2020. Today it put out a press-release detailing its completion of state defense order work for 2019.
The enterprises of Motovilikhinskiye Plants put out more than 70 pieces of tube and rocket…
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Putin on Import Substitution No one in Russia’s defense industries will say Moscow’s program of import substitution isn’t going well. But, while acknowledging some success, the Supreme CINC intimates it could be going better.
Contract for Tornado-S MLRS
Contract for Tornado-S MLRS
According to Kommersant, Perm-based ZAO Special Design Bureau (SKB) received a contract worth 6-7 billion rubles ($93-$108 million) to produce 20 combat systems for the Russian MOD. The paper’s sources say the contract is for Tornado-S multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) and transport-reload vehicles. The equipment is to be delivered in 2020.
The 12-tube, 300-mm Tornado-S(9K515) MLRS is a…
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