Russian Armed Forces to Receive 1,500 Combat Aircraft and about 200 Air Defense Syste

[Lankan Ranger]

Russian Armed Forces to Receive 1,500 Combat Aircraft and about 200 Air Defense Systems by 2020

A new state arms procurement program for 2011-2020 will be adopted by the Russian government and signed by the president this fall, a deputy prime minister said."The deadline is the third quarter of this year," Sergei Ivanov told reporters in Moscow.The draft program stipulates the upgrade of up to 11% of military equipment annually and will allow Russia to increase the share of modern weaponry to 70% by 2020.

According to the draft program, the Russian Armed Forces should receive, in particular, more than 1,500 combat aircraft and about 200 air defense systems by 2020.The Russian military is expected to receive 27 combat jets, over 50 helicopters and five battalions of S-400 air defense systems in 2010 under the current arms procurement program.

ASIAN DEFENCE: Russian Armed Forces to Receive 1,500 Combat Aircraft and about 200 Air Defense Systems by 2020

 

[Emperor Palpatine]

1500 combat aircrafts....holysh*t!!

 

[SpArK]

1500 aircrafts....?? with that economy?? u got to be kidding me!!!!

 

[Tshering22]

Oh man! 1,500 fighters!! I mean Soviets had more but hey, they had a really really strong economy as compared to current day Russia. Though Russians are really coming up, they don't seem to be ready to get 1,500 cutting edge fighters in just one swift sign.

They'd have to do some really big spending in order to do that:

Replace their 500+ MiG-29s with MiG-35s

Replace their 450 Su-27s with Su-35BMs

Replace their ~ 400 MiG-31s with PAK FAs

Do something about their massive fleet of Su-24 and Su-25s and find a modern replacement (either MiG-35 or Su-35BM here again).


That's a helluva lot of fighters to be replaced on the 8-year timespan given.

Putin and Medvedev might make all the design bureaus in RAC work overtime for 8 years continuously to cover up that kind of a fighter replacement... and this excludes fighter jets for export that the RAC units are already full to brim with orders from.

 

[Tayyab1796]

now that's what i call a wild russian bear wearing steel claws and replaing her teeth with razor sharp steel composite ones ...what's she upto ?

 

[Luftwaffe]

reminds me of Iran lol.

 

[gowthamraj]

Once upon a time they have 8 thousand fighters

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

1500? maybe upgrade the old ones!

Russian economy aint tht good even indian r buyin 126 jets since last decade!

 

[Nav]

I Don't Think so , if Russians wants to Get these 1500 number's they will have to spend More then 1 trillion Dollers.

 

[SBD-3]

Oh man! 1,500 fighters!! I mean Soviets had more but hey, they had a really really strong economy as compared to current day Russia. Though Russians are really coming up, they don't seem to be ready to get 1,500 cutting edge fighters in just one swift sign.

They'd have to do some really big spending in order to do that:

Replace their 500+ MiG-29s with MiG-35s

Replace their 450 Su-27s with Su-35BMs

Replace their ~ 400 MiG-31s with PAK FAs

Do something about their massive fleet of Su-24 and Su-25s and find a modern replacement (either MiG-35 or Su-35BM here again).


That's a helluva lot of fighters to be replaced on the 8-year timespan given.

Putin and Medvedev might make all the design bureaus in RAC work overtime for 8 years continuously to cover up that kind of a fighter replacement... and this excludes fighter jets for export that the RAC units are already full to brim with orders from.

 

[Moorkh]

to look at it from another angle, it might not be a very big strain on the economy.

1500 planes means gigantic governmental spending. this means a lot of money will be inserted into the economy by the government. i am not an economist but by what i have heard all this extra money in the economy might boost it.

 

[Tshering22]

What's so funny in that? It is domestic spending that will ultimately in some for return to the government in taxes. Even if they keep an entire year's defense budget just for this stuff (crazy stuff but they can), They can eventually replace their 1920 fighters with 1,500 cutting edge jets.

 

[Tshering22]

reminds me of Iran lol.

Seriously? Iran and Russia? Man Russia has delivered to a large extent on what it claims. Since when has Iran done that?

 

[Chinaownseverything]

to look at it from another angle, it might not be a very big strain on the economy.

1500 planes means gigantic governmental spending. this means a lot of money will be inserted into the economy by the government. i am not an economist but by what i have heard all this extra money in the economy might boost it.

Thats not how economies work, building/buying/producing weapons or going to war does not "stimulate" the economy, it hurts the economy

What is the broken window fallacy?

The broken window fallacy was first expressed by the great French economist, Frederic Bastiat. Bastiat used the parable of a broken window to point out why destruction doesn't benefit the economy.

In Bastiat's tale, a man's son breaks a pane of glass, meaning the man will have to pay to replace it. The onlookers consider the situation and decide that the boy has actually done the community a service because his father will have to pay the glazier (window repair man) to replace the broken pane. The glazier will then presumably spend the extra money on something else, jump-starting the local economy. (For related reading, see Economics Basics.)

The onlookers come to believe that breaking windows stimulates the economy, but Bastiat points out that further analysis exposes the fallacy. By breaking the window, the man's son has reduced his father's disposable income, meaning his father will not be able purchase new shoes or some other luxury good. Thus, the broken window might help the glazier, but at the same time, it robs other industries and reduces the amount being spent on other goods. Moreover, replacing something that has already been purchased is a maintenance cost, rather than a purchase of truly new goods, and maintenance doesn't stimulate production. In short, Bastiat suggests that destruction - and its costs - don't pay in an economic sense.

The broken window fallacy is often used to discredit the idea that going to war stimulates a country's economy. As with the broken window, war causes resources and capital to be funneled out of industries that produce goods to industries that destroy things, leading to even more costs. According to this line of reasoning, the rebuilding that occurs after war is primarily maintenance costs, meaning that countries would be much better off not fighting at all.

The broken window fallacy also demonstrates the faulty conclusions of the onlookers; by only taking into consideration the man with the broken window and the glazier who must replace it, the crowd forgets about the missing third party (such as the shoe maker). In this sense, the fallacy comes from making a decision by looking only at the parties directly involved in the short term, rather than looking at all parties (directly and indirectly) involved in the short and long term.

 

[Nahraf]

Russian Armed Forces to Receive 1,500 Combat Aircraft by 2020

In order to have 1,500 fighters by December 31, 2020 they have to add 3 fighters everyday from today and spend at least $100 million a day. Russia would have to spend $36.5 billion each year to buy combat fighters for next eight years. That is not possible even with energy revenue that Russia receives every year.