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Originally posted by Russian
Every Anti-Russian people are welcome here.
Well it was started by someone with no idea about Russian tech.
Out,
Russian
Originally posted by WestPoint23
enlighten us about russian tech which is 20 years behind US tech.
Originally posted by jetsetter
But it was only a few days ago a Russian general was pleading for more military spending to maintain the forces. He did not get the money. Even if Russian firms inside Russia are developing new weapons it does not mean that the Russian military is going to buy them.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Russia doesn't have the money to fund recearch into new weapons that is a fact.
Originally posted by titus
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Russia doesn't have the money to fund recearch into new weapons that is a fact.
sorry, the fact is that research is already done, and weapons deployed in 1960-1980s
you just hate russian tech, dont you
[edit on 17-6-2004 by titus]
Russia's military chief of staff made an impassioned plea Thursday for greater defense spending and argued that the 2005 budget now being approved by the government was leaving the military in the cold.
General Anatoly Kvashnin said current spending would leave the country's largely unreformed Soviet-era military in a state of crisis and demanded more cash -- a common call made from the top of Russia's military command.
"The current draft budget will not give us a chance to raise the level of our national security and will leave the military in its current state of crisis," Kvashnin was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency.
Defense spending in the current draft budget is put at 895 billion rubles (31 billion dollars, 26 billion euros) -- or just under a third of all forecast national spending for next year.
Military spending was increased by just under 20 percent in ruble terms from 2004. But the figure still represents less than one tenth of that spent by Moscow's Cold War era rival Washington.
Kvashnin's lobbying efforts did not appear to succeed Thursday as the government gave preliminary approval to next year's budget without announcing any major changes.
His position -- which he has held since 1997 -- has also slipped in rank as President Vladimir Putin looks for his own personal allies to reform the ailing armed forces.
The chiefs of staff last week were stripped of much of their responsibility and made largely subordinate to the Russian defense ministry now headed by Putin's close ally and friend Sergei Ivanov.
Kvashnin has not commented publicly on the budget decision. He and Ivanov have been fighting for control over army spending in recent years.
Originally posted by InterceptorKnight
What about Chinese /Soviet collaboration on weapon development? The Chinese are obviously in a better position to finance a program.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
russian tech dosent stand a chance against US tech so theres nothing to hate