Putin on Tuesday kicks off in Sochi a series of meetings on the development of the defence industry

The head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on Tuesday during the week will hold a series of meetings with the leadership of the Ministry of defense on the development of the military-industrial complex, said the press Secretary of the head of the country Dmitry Peskov.

"in Sochi we will host, a traditional week on the development of military power. This is not the 1st year, in my opinion, the head of the 3rd year of such session, conducts meetings, " - said Peskov.

in the process of meetings expected to discuss the progress of execution of the state defense order, the priorities of the military ships.

"Now all these issues will be systematically, in conjunction with the dive into the details, to aluminates during the week," - said Peskov, adding, because This will be the fifth series of such meetings with the President.

at the meeting of the military-industrial Commission in April, Putin said that all scheduled tasks for defense procurement in the past year, closed the 1st quarter of this year ended with a positive result. He tried to convince to reduce the risks that are dependent on external suppliers who have the ability to falter. The Manager noticed that all of the components for the production of the military-industrial complex must be localized in Russia. Along with this, Russia has no plans to close against contact with foreign partners in the sphere of defense. According to information of the Federal service for military-technical cooperation, Russia's arms exports according to the results of the past year exceeded $ fifteen. 5 billion dollars, With a current portfolio of military orders is 48 billion.

The issue of development of the Russian defense industry's most deteriorated due to the introduction of the punishment relative to Russia because of disagreements on the situation in Ukraine. There was a necessity of import substitution. Frozen appeared, and among them, regard the capital of Russia and Kiev, cooperating fully in the defense sector. First Federal space Agency has estimated that Russia will need 33 billion rubles to compensate for the negative effects of any rupture of cooperation with the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.

in General, upon written request of the Russian bureaucrats and commissioners of the MIC, refusal to cooperate with Ukraine and Europe will not significantly impact the implementation of an ambitious program of rearmament of the army: in 2011-2020 for these purposes is expected to spend 20 trillion rubles, and another 3 trillion provided in the modernization of the military-industrial complex. Moreover, the rejection of imports will motivate the development of its high-tech manufacturing, but can also "shift right" in terms of individual projects.

Despite the difficult situation in the economy, the Ministry of defence have not changed plans for the rearmament of military power By the end of 2015, the share of new weapons expected to grow to 30%. By 2020, as stated, the share of modern weaponry in the Russian armed forces is expected to grow to 70 percent; genera and species of troops - up to 100%.

for example, for the 1st quarter of 2015 OPK passed about 70 thousand units carry of weapons and equipment, 341 vehicles, had a repair with the modernization of 60 units of armored vehicles, 36 fighting vehicles, multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), 24 ballistic missiles.


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