Russia to Receive Six Intercontinental Missiles, Satellites in 2006 — Minister

You know what? Maybe they could pay their debts to all their companies instead of letting them go bancrupt and order limited weapons from a very select group of companies? The SSBN Tula, Delta IV class, will not be handed back over to the Russian Navy, for that same reason. The yard doesn’t want to give it back because of the huge debts the Russian federation still has with that company. Even the last overhaul (of Bryansky or Ekaterininburg don’t know which one anymore) is not totally financed up till now…

USA can destroy Russia at any moment and Russia can’t do anything about this.But you russians are unthankfull people, build some evasive warheads.For what reason? They will be destroyed on the ground.

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Not to mention Vodka… talk about better the devil you know.
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I saw and experienced this my self..

To be honest US brits are having similar problems.. so

anyway i liked yolki polki and the wonder salad bar they have..

Who knows, maybe in the future Russia will be able to build not 6 but 400 ICBMs annually as during 1967-1974 period.

Hopefully they won’t. That would be a waste. It would be better to spend the money on dual use technologies that can be used to make money… R & D in things in the aerospace or electronics industry that can be sold in commercial products.

Of course in the area of military spendings Putin’s Russia isn’t a Yeltsin’s Russia but unfortunately Putin’s Russia isn’t a Brezhnev’s Soviet Union yet… :diablo:

Who knows, maybe in the future Russia will be able to build not 6 but 400 ICBMs annually as during 1967-1974 period.

Well said Rokosovskiy !!!Those predictions aren’t always true and Russia in 2005 is not the Russia àf 1998 !!!It’s a different country !!!

Exact read this my friend:…

😮 But it is a very old article based on completely wrong asumptions! Now it is 2005 but Russia still possesses almost 4000 strategic nuclear warheads, not 900!
You aren’t a good seer, Edz. 😀

Exact read this my friend:

Under the Nunn-Lugar Act, a program named for its originators originated by Senators Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn, D-Ga., the United States has spent more than $400 million each year since 1991 to help Russia dismantle its old Soviet weapons, and plans to allocate an additional $440 million in 1999.

Under the ‘swords for plowshares’ deal signed in January 1994 to dispose of excess weapons material, the U.S. Government will purchase 500 tonnes of HEU from Russia for dilution, for US$11.9 billion. Under the Russian-U.S. agreement the United States Enrichment Corporation will purchase a minimum of 500 tonnes of military HEU over 20 years, commencing with 10 tonnes for the first five years and not less than 30 tonnes per year thereafter. The weapons-grade is to be blended down to 4.4% U-235 in Russia and the Russians intend to use 1.5% U-235 for this, to minimize the levels of U-234 in the product. In the short term the military uranium is likely to be blended down to 20% U-235, then stored. In this form it is not usable for weapons.

The blending down of 500 tonnes of military HEU will result in about 15,000 tonnes of low-enriched uranium over 20 years. This is equivalent to about 150 000 tonnes of natural uranium, or approximately three times western world demand in 1993. The dilution of 10 tonnes of military HEU per year for the first five years will displace approximately 3,700 tonnes of uranium oxide production per year, equivalent to output from a medium to large uranium mine. By 2000 the dilution of 30 tonnes of military HEU will displace about 11,200 tonnes of uranium oxide mine production per year which represents approximately 20% of the western world’s uranium requirements.

In 1995 the U.S. Enrichment Corporation received its first shipments of low-enriched uranium from Russia (186 tonnes), derived from six tonnes of weapons-grade material. The first shipment of this to a customer, valued at US$145 million, was made in November, and is presumably now generating electricity.

On 27 April 1997 Nuclear Energy Minister Viktor Mikhailov announced that Russia had dismantled almost half of its ****nal, removing nearly 400 tonnes of HEU in the process.

Although under the START II treaty Russia is permitted 3500 warheads, it has been clear for a number of years that maintaining this number exceeded the resources of Russia. One of the first official indications of this was at a stockpile planning at a review held by Pres. Boris Yeltsin on 6 July 1998. At this review Yeltsin used the proposed START III levels of 2000-2500 warheads as the basis of stockpile planning. Most estimates of Russia’s likely nuclear forces over the next decade are sharply lower than this however.

Prior to the July 1998 review, prominent Russian strategist Lev Volkov estimated that Russia may have only 700 warheads by 2007. Sergei Kortunov, a top Kremlin defense aide, has written that “with a lot of effort” Russia might climb back to 1,000 warheads by 2015. Perhaps the most serious indication of the straits Russia’s nuclear forces are in, because of its official imprimatur, came in October 1998. News organizations reported that a secret report to the Russian Duma by First Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Maslyukov, a former top Soviet-era military-industrial planner, had estimated that Russia may well be able to field only 800 to 900 nuclear warheads by 2005. These estimates are notable in that they address Russian capability regardless of what the official policy might be.

hes too pro western if anything… need someone more like lukashenka

YOlki Polki is doing a good enough job itself!

Not to mention Vodka… talk about better the devil you know.

Putin is not a strong leader.He is unable to reign in Russia.Russian people don’t like him.

Most of the Russians I chat to like the way he does not cave in to every US demand. The fact that he looks after Russias interests instead of pandering to the west is seen as strength.

The US is destroying Russia as we speak. McDonalds, Burger King, etc etc etc.

pffft Russia does not need those, YOlki Polki is doing a good enough job itself!

erm, Edz, you are aware that putin has been elected by the Russian people twice-admittedly in rather dubious elections but still he was elected and Russia is sustaining over 5% economic growth per annum.

Putin is not a strong leader.He is unable to reign in Russia.Russian people don’t like him.

In Russia one must reign with iron hand,

Hahahaha… sorry, but that has proven to be the worst time for Russians. Under stalin the Russians suffered terribly. It made life fairly simple, but rather bleak. The Russian people do need a strong leader, like Putin, but they also need a smart leader and they also have to do more than just follow like sheep. They have to learn to lead by example.
They have only had just over a decade of free choice and they are still not used to it. It certainly wasn’t the solution to all their problems the people of the west seemed to think it was. The old story… you can only be free if you have money to enjoy it. Poor and free is not worse than not poor but bound. A reason why battered wives don’t leave their abusive husbands… economic dependance… the freedom also comes with personal responsibility and a need to learn how to look after yourself.

Putin is not the main problem of Russia.He wants to do something but he cannot because russian people are so corrupted and careless that nobody can do anything.Russian people are tired and don’t believe in anything more,perhaps not only russian.This is everywhere a problem,but in Russia it’s very big problem.In Russia one must reign with iron hand, this is the only goverment form that russians understand and love, but Putin is too labil for this.

zhirinovskys party is 3rd in the polls btw… communists are 2nd… too bad they hate each other more than they hate putin or we could see him removed 😀

USA can destroy Russia at any moment and Russia can’t do anything about this.

The US is destroying Russia as we speak. McDonalds, Burger King, etc etc etc.

Perhaps they would like Putin more if Zhirinovski got into power. Then the Russian early warning satellites would be there and they’d be buying thousands of tanks per month, and the Chechens would be deported to Siberia… those freedom fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan would start getting AT weapons that could really hurt, and to repay the favour perhaps a few thousand MANPADS too. …hey, that doesn’t sound so bad afterall.

are you 12 or just retarded?

haha….seriously….

http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=624998

here is a link

kommersant ran an article a day or two ago talking about how the 2005 procurement plan was totally derailed. The Tu-160 they are set to get in 2006 was originally planned for 05 (two Tu-160’s had been planned for 2005) but at 24 billion rubles the generals balked at paying that over 1 year so the jet will arrive a year late. The navy was supposed to get 2 ships this year, both have been delayed a solid year. The S-400 batteries planned for 2005 are still with the manufacturer undergoing tests, Almaz has not been able to pass the MoD’s quality control requirements. The MoD was set to recieve its first IACO certified Tu-214 in 2005, but it looks like it wont recieve it, even though it looks like it has been paid for! Some sources say 3 Yak-130’s had been planned for 2005, to my knowledge only 1 was delivered, the year isnt over, but there is little hope that 2 more will materialize.

The manufacturers have had trouble moving from making prototypes to actual series built equipment. This has caused the MoD to re-prioritize what its buying because it cant just sit by and not spend the money. So, while Ivanov said in 2004 that only 4 Topol-M’s would be ordered for 2005, 7 have been delivered this year! While originally 17 T-90’s were planned for 2005, Kommersant says 91 were in fact actually delivered (meaning Ivanov didnt mispeak earlier this year). So, the money that was meant for those other now delayed programs was spent on other stuff instead, stuff the MoD really doesnt need as badly. But if it doesnt spend the money it wont get more next year.

The Russkies have money now but their industrial base is in bad shape and will need time to develop to the point where the producers will actually be able to fulfill orders in an adequate manner. The problem is, they wasted a solid decade because of lack of $$$ and could well end up wasting another one because of their industrial bases decay.