Defense Ministry working on new Russian defense plan for 2016-2020
MOSCOW. Jan 13 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Defense Ministry will be focused on bolstering the combat potential of forces in every strategic sector and better quality of Armed Forces training in 2015, Defense Minister Gen. of the Army Sergei Shoigu said.
"We are set to draw up a new defense plan of the Russian Federation for 2016-2020 and to provide timely placing and strict fulfillment of state defense orders for 2015 in order to achieve the required parameters of modern armaments and military hardware," the minister said in a teleconference on Tuesday.
"We are due to supply troops with 701 armored vehicles, two brigade sets of Iskander-M missile systems, 1,545 multirole vehicles, 126 planes, 88 helicopters, two multirole submarines and five surface warships in 2015," Shoigu said.
"Besides, a Voronezh-DM prefabricated radar station will be deployed in Yeniseisk in 2015, one year ahead of schedule," he continued. "The period of the deployment of a similar radar station in Barnaul will be cut by six months."