Russian army to get 1,300 units of equipment and weapons

The Russian Armed Forces will receive over 1,300 types of weaponry in
line with a draft arms procurement program until 2020, Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin said on Monday, RIA Novosti reports.

"We will need to set up new or expand the existing production lines to
manufacture 220 of the new types of weaponry," Putin told a meeting on
the program, which is expected to be adopted by the yearend.

More than 20 trillion rubles ($640.7 billion) will be earmarked for
weapons procurement, three times more than is allocated in the
existing 2007-2015 program, he added.

The new program stipulates the upgrade of up to 11 percent of military
equipment annually and will allow Russia to increase the share of
modern weaponry to 70 percent by 2020.