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Defense News - Russia | |||
Saturday, September 24, 2011, 02:47 PM | |||
Vladimir Putin wants to fully re-equip Russian armed forces in 5 to 10 years. | |||
| Russia must re-equip his armed forces in 5 to 10 years, said Saturday, September 23, 2011, in Moscow Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who could become the next president. | |||
Russia ordered two new French made Mistral class amphibious assault ships | |||
"We must completely re-equip our army and our navy force in 5 to 10 years," said Putin, whose candidacy for the presidency next Saturday had been proposed by the outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev in Russian pre-election congress of the party. The re-equipment of the army "is an important instrument of the modernization of the defense industry and the entire Russian economy," Putin said. | |||