Russia Plans to Spend $613 Billion on Arms

[p2prada]

This year, Indias capital outlay is 15 billion USD.

to reach anywhere between 100 to 150 billion/year by 2020 we will require 26 to 33% compounded annual growth. Nominal GDP with that kind of growth should be more than 10 trillion USD.

120 billion for next three years is quite ambitious. What does 120 billion include after all?, are you considering about weapons at present prices? in that case even the 750 billion dollar estimate upto 2020 is ambitious.

Our current capital outlay is not fixed. More can be allocated depending on the situation as told by FM.

$120B in 3 years may be a bit too much though. Perhaps I should have said total defence expenditure instead of only acquisitions.

However by 2020, that kind of nominal GDP is quite achievable. China has consistently grown at more than 25% from 2000 to 2006 in terms of nominal GDP and slightly lesser until 2008 when Yuan become 6 to a dollar. Real GDP however is calculated differently.

At our current growth rate, our economy should double every 5 or 6 years. That's $5-6Trillion by 2020 with today's exchange rate. If exchange rate ratio has a 50% difference by then, then the nominal GDP should double that to $10-12 Trillion, maybe more if we are forced to have a ratio similar to Yuan and Dollar today.

At the same rate, China is expected to overtake US economy by 2020 with a $20Trillion economy, perhaps much higher if the Yuan is forced to equalize with Euro or Dollar which would mean a 6 times rise in nominal GDP for China, which would further mean the Chinese economy will be a $50Trillion+ economy by 2020, all this without taking inflation into account. A 10% growth and higher for both countries has been predicted until 2020. Calculating Nominally has a lot of drawbacks compared to PPP.

 

[tarunraju]

$613 billion over the next decade is actually quite small if you break it down to "per year". In fact, $61 billion per year on defence acquisitions is alarmingly low, considering it's Russia.

 

[p2prada]

$613 billion over the next decade is actually quite small if you break it down to "per year". In fact, $61 billion per year on defence acquisitions is alarmingly low, considering it's Russia.

Their current defence spending is half that.

 

[ajay_ijn]

$613 billion over the next decade is actually quite small if you break it down to "per year". In fact, $61 billion per year on defence acquisitions is alarmingly low, considering it's Russia.

Its not Soviet Union anymore. They don't have the finances to maintain that gargantuan war-machine.

 

[tarunraju]

Their current defence spending is half that.

And that's because they didn't have a concrete defence acquisition plan in motion for a greater part of the last decade.

 

[p2prada]

And that's because they didn't have a concrete defence acquisition plan in motion for a greater part of the last decade.

No. They did not have a decent sustained economy for a greater part of the last 2 decades.

The defence acquisition plan was there on paper. But there was no money. They are planning on inducting the same stuff that we have or are planning through this decade.

Stuff we already have that they are getting in the near future:
Su-35BM
New Gorshkov Class Frigates modified from Krivak class.
Brahmos
T-90

Stuff both will get in the future:
Aircraft Carriers
Nukkad Subs
Modern ABM
Network centric capability
Brahmos 2
PAKFA/FGFA
GLONASS
T-90M

 

[pmaitra]

Its not Soviet Union anymore. They don't have the finances to maintain that gargantuan war-machine.

It's less to do with Soviet Union or Russian Federation that with availability of funds.

Just like USSR, Russian Federation generates a lot of revenue out of energy exports. With the trouble in the Middle East, expect Russia to make more profits.

One may argue that Cold War is over. Let us not forget:

• NATO right upto Russias borders.
• Kosovo.
• US missile shield plans in Poland and Czech Republic.
• Russo-Georgian War.
• Ukraine and their pro-NATO political parties.
• The Baltic States and their new found love for Nazis and hatred for Russia. Their trouble with Russian dominated enclaves.
• Russian and US submarines playing hide and seek near each others' facilities and installations.

Russia sure as hell needs a lot of gunpowder to keep its enemies at an arm's length, and now they might just find enough money for it.

 

[Minghegy]

Their weapon development inherited from CCCP, no good things in recent decade.
Ballistic missile defense, shipbased laser weapon, energy weapon, informationization, advanced material, a long list.

 

[Adux]

I have you the sheer number of "Russia will do that and this" and every General proposing some mega plan or the other. The only one's that have gone through are Mistral purchase, and nothing else. Hot Gas

 

[nrj]

Russia's $650B Arms Drive Misguided: Developer

MOSCOW - A top Russian arms developer on March 17 slammed the country's new $650 billion rearmament drive as a misguided attempt to mass produce old systems that have little use in modern warfare.

The military last month unveiled the details of a new procurement plan through 2020 that analysts said placed a strong emphasis on heavy nuclear missile spending that could keep Russia's parity with the United States.

The long-discussed program aims to fill major gaps in a dilapidated Soviet-era force that Western experts believe is no longer capable of engaging in large-scale warfare.

But the head of a prestigious Moscow institute that is designing one of Russia's latest ballistic missiles said the new drive could potentially leave the country decades behind the West.

"I feel bad for the state when they propose this senseless spending," Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology head Yury Solomonov was quoted as saying by Interfax.

Solomonov noted that the United States was now pouring money into the development of new X-37 and X-51 hypersonic space vehicles, "something that we simply do not do."

Instead, the new program intends to "reproduce things that were made decades ago for absolutely unlikely scenarios."

Solomonov said much of the spending was being funneled into the development of a new line of liquid-fuelled nuclear missiles whose use vanished with the end of the Cold War.

"I would like to assure you that it is based on delivery vehicle technology that is about 30 years old," the developer said.

The program unveiled by Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin sees Russia building 100 new ships and acquiring 1,000 helicopters along with 20 submarines and more than 600 warplanes.

But the exact breakdown of the spending plan was not revealed and analysts said much of the money appeared earmarked for missile programs that seek to ensure Russia's ability to penetrate a new European missile shield mooted by NATO

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[nrj]

Russian 5G subs to be equipped with ballistic, cruise missiles

Russia's proposed fifth-generation nuclear submarines will be armed with both ballistic and cruise missiles, a senior Navy source told RIA Novosti on Saturday.

He did not specify the names of the missiles.

Russia is planning to develop its newest fifth-generation submarine by 2020 under a 2011-2020 arms procurement program, First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said last month.

Russia also plans to build eight fourth-generation strategic nuclear submarines by 2020 and equip them with Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missiles, which are expected to be put into service this year.


Defense Ministry submitted the 19 trillion ruble ($651 billion) arms procurement spending plan for 2011-2020 to the government in December. Some 80% of the funds will be spent on buying weapons and 10% will be spent on scientific research.

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[A.V.]

Putin Announces Doubling of Missile Production


MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said March 21 that Russia will double production of missile systems beginning in 2013 as the government plans to spend $2.7 billion to launch their serial production until 2020.

"New missile weapons, strategic and tactical, such as Yars, Bulava and Iskander-M, will enter service, and beginning in 2013 the production output of missile systems should effectively double," Putin said.
Speaking in Votkinsk at a government meeting dedicated to the $670 billion 2011-2020 state arms procurement program, Putin added that the local Votkinsk plant will get $340 million for its modernization within the next three years. Other companies involved in the same production chain with the Votkinsk plant will get $190 million to upgrade their equipment in the next three years, the prime minister said.

 

[rudresh]

india and russia are on the same way of modernising the tot that india acquires and home grown tech must be put to use .i feel india should have a part of the cake since we have very good relations from the west can produce at cheaper prices.if india and russia wants the same kind of weapons we can mass manufacture with russia.but russians spending this much is not even in my wild guess and even if it spends it will be within the country itself.

 

[nrj]

Russia to double production of ballistic missile systems - Putin

The production of ballistic missile systems in Russia will double starting in 2013, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

"The Armed Forces will receive new strategic and tactical missile systems, such as RS-24 Yars, Bulava and Iskander M," Putin said at a meeting with defense industry officials in the southern Siberian republic of Udmurtia. "Starting from 2013, the production of [ballistic] missile systems must be doubled."

Putin said Russia will invest 77 billion rubles ($2.6 bln) in the production of ballistic missiles in line with a state program on the modernization of the defense industry until 2020.

Missile manufacturers, including a missile production plant in Votkinsk, will receive 15 billion rubles ($500 mln) in the next three years for the development of production capacity, the prime minister said.

"The financing will gradually increase in the future," Putin added.

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