Putin: "the Aerospace Forces, one of the most powerful, high-tech, and maneuverable branches of the modern Russian military. Russia’s reliable protection from an aerospace attack and maintaining strategic parity directly depend on their combat readiness and technical equipment."
"some of our foreign colleagues have not abandoned their attempts to undermine this parity, including by deploying elements of their global missile defense systems in the immediate vicinity of our borders. We cannot fail to notice these threats to Russia's security" 2/
"Under the state armament program, over the past four years, 25 S-400 systems and over 70 modern fighter jets have been produced, and more than 20 S-300 systems and 90 aircraft have been modernized." 3/
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"We need to improve aerospace defense. This need has been prompted by the leading countries’ developing innovative strike weapons with advanced speed parameters...US plans to deploy medium-range missiles in Europe are well known...and pose a great danger and threat to us." 4/
"our troops must be supplied, in the next few years, with an additional >200 aircraft and 26 S-350 and S-400 systems, as well as the first production prototype or first production models of the latest S-500 system." PVO-PRO should reach 80% modern equipment by 2025-2027. 5/
"special attention must be paid to the development of the centralized air and space defense control system, the integration of the sub-systems of intelligence and warning of air or space attack into a single information space, and the deployment of advanced space systems." 6/
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