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by Mikhail Kuravlev
Where have I seen this sort of thing before? The national army's getting the snot beat out of it. So hold a meeting. And quit firing that damned artillery at night. It keeps His Excellency awake.
[RIA Novosti] In Moscow, at an expanded meeting of the collegium of the Ministry of Defense, they summed up the results of the outgoing year and discussed proposals for strengthening the army. About what decisions were made - in the material of RIA Novosti.
LARGE MEASURES
Such meetings with the participation of the President are held annually. According to the protocol, the minister of defense speaks after the first person.
Sergei Shoigu said: "In order to guarantee the solution of the tasks of ensuring the military security of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to increase the number of armed forces to 1.5 million servicemen, including contract servicemen to 695,000."
In addition, he called for a phased increase in the draft age: initial - from 18 to 21 years, limit - from 27 to 30 years. And he noted that it is necessary for conscripts to provide the opportunity to conclude a contract from the first day of service.
The head of the defense department stressed: it is necessary to complete the digitalization of military registration and enlistment offices.
But the proposal to increase the service life, voiced in the fall by Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov and actively discussed in the media and social networks, was not mentioned at the board.
It should be noted that about 120,000 people are drafted into the Russian Armed Forces every six months .
NATO RESPONSE
The minister believes that it is necessary to form two interspecific strategic territorial associations: the Moscow and Leningrad military districts. This is due to the intention of Finland and Sweden to join NATO.
It is also necessary to improve the structure of individual units:
—each combined arms army must have a mixed aviation division and an army aviation brigade with 80-100 combat helicopters;
—it is required to additionally create three directorates of aviation divisions, eight bomber aviation regiments, one fighter aviation regiment, six army aviation brigades;
—in the coastal troops of the Navy, on the basis of existing brigades, to form five divisions of the marine corps;
—in the strategic directions - five artillery divisions of military districts, as well as artillery brigades of high power;
—create three motorized rifle divisions, including as part of combined arms formations in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions , as well as an army corps in Karelia;
—add two airborne assault divisions of the Airborne Forces.
The rear support will also be improved. Three repair plants will appear next year, and the corresponding units at the military level will be strengthened. The goal is to correct mistakes. According to the minister, in 2008-2012, military repairs were practically destroyed due to the transition to outsourcing.
NEW WEAPONS
The Board reported on the weapons that entered service. One of the main novelties is the Generalissimo Suvorov nuclear submarine with Bulava ballistic missiles, a fourth-generation nuclear missile carrier.
After successful tests, they began to deploy heavy missiles of the Sarmat complex. Also, the nuclear triad was replenished with the Tu- 160M bomber.
Along with equipping the regiments of the Strategic Missile Forces with Avangards, this made it possible to increase the share of modern weapons in the strategic nuclear forces to 91 percent.
In general, over the past year, Shoigu specified, the combat capabilities of the army increased by 13 percent.
And in January, the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" with sea-based hypersonic missile systems "Zirkon" will enter service. The renewal of the armed forces will continue.
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