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RUSSIA TO BUILD 100 NEW MILITARY BASES AND AIRFIELDS
General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of Russia's Armed Forces
RIA Novosti
Vitaliy Belousov
20:14 27/06/2013
http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20130627/181914590/Russia-to-Build-100-New-Military-Bases-and-Airfields.html
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MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - About 100 new defense infrastructure
facilities, including airfields and Army and Navy maintenance and
supply bases, will be built in Russia to accommodate new weapon
systems, a top military official said Thursday.
By 2016, 316 garrison towns are to be built, their number due to
increase to 495 by 2020, said General Valery Gerasimov, chief of
the General Staff of Russia's Armed Forces, adding that more than
3,000 facilities, including barracks, parking lots, cafeterias, etc.,
would be built in those locations.
All of those facilities will be put into operation months before new
arms and military equipment are delivered, he said. Other installations
are slated to include air, land and naval test sites and advanced
training centers.
All of that will help significantly enhance personnel training
standards and make the Armed Forces more efficient, Gerasimov said.
In early May, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the share of new
weaponry in service with the Russian armed forces must be up to 75
percent by 2020. Russian officials previously cited rearmament goals
of 30 percent by 2015 and 70 percent by 2020.
The Russian government has allocated 22 trillion rubles ($730 billion)
for an ambitious armed forces rearmament program through 2020.
General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of Russia's Armed Forces
RIA Novosti
Vitaliy Belousov
20:14 27/06/2013
http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20130627/181914590/Russia-to-Build-100-New-Military-Bases-and-Airfields.html
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MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - About 100 new defense infrastructure
facilities, including airfields and Army and Navy maintenance and
supply bases, will be built in Russia to accommodate new weapon
systems, a top military official said Thursday.
By 2016, 316 garrison towns are to be built, their number due to
increase to 495 by 2020, said General Valery Gerasimov, chief of
the General Staff of Russia's Armed Forces, adding that more than
3,000 facilities, including barracks, parking lots, cafeterias, etc.,
would be built in those locations.
All of those facilities will be put into operation months before new
arms and military equipment are delivered, he said. Other installations
are slated to include air, land and naval test sites and advanced
training centers.
All of that will help significantly enhance personnel training
standards and make the Armed Forces more efficient, Gerasimov said.
In early May, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the share of new
weaponry in service with the Russian armed forces must be up to 75
percent by 2020. Russian officials previously cited rearmament goals
of 30 percent by 2015 and 70 percent by 2020.
The Russian government has allocated 22 trillion rubles ($730 billion)
for an ambitious armed forces rearmament program through 2020.