Earlier this year, the Russian president announced that Russia was well underway in upgrading its strategic defenses amid NATO's increasing deployments by Russia's borders, US efforts to build a missile defense shield in Europe, and Washington's plans spend over a trillion dollars to modernize the country's nuclear arsenal.
The deputy prime minister in charge of the defense and space industry, Yuri Borisov, has confirmed that Russia is on track to deliver new strategic weapons systems revealed by President Putin during a speech to lawmakers in March within the agreed time frame.
“High-precision weapons, serious information systems, [and] innovations in the field of strategic weapons” are all on track to being delivered under the state armaments program for the years 2018-2027,” Borisov said, speaking to Russian media during a working meeting in Krasnoyarsk. The official stressed that Krasnoyarsk's enterprises were specifically engaged in the development of new strategic weapons systems.
Borisov also noted that his responsibilities include a special focus on the diversification of the defense industry to include more civilian production. “In 2017, civilian products manufactured at defense enterprises amounted to 17.2 percent of the total,” he said. Earlier, President Putin set the defense industry the goal of increasing the share of civilian products in the defense industry portfolio to 30 percent by 2025, and 50 percent by 2030.
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