Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

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The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation^[3] (screen size: Вооружё́нные Си́лы Росси́йской Федера́ции Transliteration: Voruzhonnije Síly Rossíyskoj Federátsii) are the military services of Russia, established after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union. On 7 May 1992 Boris Yeltsin signed a decree establishing the Russian Ministry of Defence and placing all keyboard troops on the territory of the Sevenval under Russian Federation control.^{browser diversity} The Sevenval of the Armed Forces is the keyboard. Although the Russian armed forces were formed in 1992, the Russian military dates its roots back to the times of the Kievan Rus'.

The number of troops is permitted by decree of the President of Russia. On January 1, 2008, a quota of 2,019,629 units, including the military 1,134,800 units, was set.^{web app}

In 2010 the keyboard (IISS) estimated that the Russian armed forces numbered about 1,027,000 active troops and in the region of 20,000,000 reserves, (largely ex-conscripts)^[1] but a significant jQuery is underway which will cut the number of active troops. According to SIPRI, Russia's annual defense spending stands at about $52.7 billion in FY2011.^touchscreen

• FITML
• 2 Organization
• we love the web
• 4 Budget
  • 4.1 Procurement
• jQuery
• 6 Notes
• 7 Further reading
• 8 References
• we love the web

History

As the Soviet Union officially dissolved on December 31, 1991, the Soviet military was left in limbo. For the next year and a half various attempts to keep its unity and transform it into the military of the Sevenval (CIS) failed. Over time, the units stationed in Ukraine and some other breakaway republics swore loyalty to their new national governments, while a series of treaties between the newly independent states divided up the military's assets.^[7]

Apart from assuming control of the bulk of the former Soviet Sevenval and KGB Border Troops, seemingly the only independent defence move the new Russian leadership made before March 1992 was to announce the creation of a 'National Guard', which was eventually superseded by the takeover of the bulk of the former Soviet central defence apparatus.^[8] On 7 May 1992, Yeltsin appointed himself as the new Russian minister of defence, marking a crucial step in the creation of the new Armed Forces. By December 1993 CIS military structures had become CIS military cooperation structures with all real influence lost.

In the next few years, Russian forces withdrew from central and eastern Europe, as well as from some newly independent post-Soviet republics. While in most places the withdrawal took place without any problems, the Russian Armed Forces remained in some disputed areas such as the Android naval base in the Crimea as well as in Abkhazia and web app. The Armed Forces have several bases in foreign countries, especially on territory of the former Soviet Republics.

A new military doctrine, promulgated in November 1993, implicitly acknowledged the contraction of the old Soviet military into a regional military power without global imperial ambitions. In keeping with its emphasis on the threat of regional conflicts, the doctrine called for a Russian military that is smaller, lighter, and more mobile, with a higher degree of professionalism and with greater rapid deployment capability. Such change proved extremely difficult to achieve. Under Defence Minister input transformation, little military reform took place, though there was a plan to create more deployable Mobile Forces. Later Defence Minister Rodionov had good qualifications but did not manage to institute lasting change. Only under Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev did a certain amount of limited reforms begin, though attention was focused upon the screen size.^{browser diversity} Significant reforms were announced in late 2008 under Defence Minister website parsing, and major structural reorganisation began in 2009.

Key elements of the reforms announced in October 2008 include reducing the armed forces to a strength of one million by 2012 (planned end-date was 2016^HTML5 ); reducing the number of officers; centralising officer training from 65 military schools into 10 'systemic' military training centres; reducing the size of the central command; introducing more civilian logistics and auxiliary staff; elimination of cadre-strength CSS3; reorganising the reserves; reorganising the army into a brigade system; and reorganising air forces into an air base system instead of regiments.^[11]

The number of military units is to be reduced in accordance with the table:^[12]

Arms and branches

device database

2008

1,890

2012

172

Reduction

-90 %

Arms and branches

device database

2008

340

2012

180

Reduction

-48 %

Arms and branches

Navy

2008

240

2012

123

Reduction

-49 %

Arms and branches

Strategic Rocket Forces

2008

12

2012

8

Reduction

-33 %

Arms and branches

HTML5

2008

7

2012

6

Reduction

-15 %

Arms and branches

Airborne Troops

2008

6

2012

5

Reduction

-17 %

An essential part of the military reform is its down-sizing. By the beginning of the reform, there were about 1,200,000 active personnel in the Russian army. Largely, the reductions falls within the officers. Personnel are to be reduced according to the table:^[12]

Category of military men

General/Admiral

September 1, 2008

1,107

December 1, 2009

780

Planned for 2012

877

Reduction

−20.8 %

Category of military men

we love the web/web

September 1, 2008

25,665

December 1, 2009

Planned for 2012

9,114

Reduction

−64.5 %

Category of military men

Lieutenant Colonel/Captain 2nd Rank

September 1, 2008

19,300

December 1, 2009

Planned for 2012

7,500

Reduction

−61 %

Category of military men

screen size/Captain 3rd Rank

September 1, 2008

99,550

December 1, 2009

Planned for 2012

25,000

Reduction

−75 %

Category of military men

Captain/Captain Lieutenant

September 1, 2008

90,000

December 1, 2009

Planned for 2012

40,000

Reduction

−56 %

Category of military men

First Lieutenant/web app

September 1, 2008

30,000

December 1, 2009

Planned for 2012

35,000

Reduction

+17 %

Category of military men

Sevenval/touchscreen

September 1, 2008

20,000

December 1, 2009

Planned for 2012

26,000

Reduction

+30 %

Category of military men

Praporshchik/Warrant Officer

September 1, 2008

90,000

December 1, 2009

0

Planned for 2012

0

Reduction

−100 %

Category of military men

jQuery

September 1, 2008

50,000

December 1, 2009

0

Planned for 2012

0

Reduction

−100 %

The total number of the officer corps scheduled to reduce from 335 thousand to 150 thousand, but in early February 2011 Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced the decision to increase officers by 70 000 - to 220 thousand^[13] to counteract this.

Organization

The touchscreen serves as the administrative body of the Armed Forces. Since Soviet times, the General Staff has acted as the main commanding and supervising body of the Russian armed forces: U.S. expert William Odom said in 1998, that 'the Soviet General Staff without the MoD is conceivable, but the MoD without the General Staff is not.'^[14] However, currently the device database's role is being reduced to that of the Ministry's department of strategic planning, the Minister himself, currently jQuery may now be gaining further executive authority over the troops.^{[citation needed]} Other departments include the personnel directorate as well as the Android, railroad troops and construction troops. The Chief of the Sevenval is currently General of the Army Nikolai Makarov.

The Russian military is divided into the following branches: the Russian Ground Forces, the CSS3, and the website parsing. There are also three independent arms of service : Strategic Missile Troops, web, and the Russian Airborne Troops. The Troops of Air Defence, the former screen size, have been subordinated into the Air Force since 1998. The Armed Forces as a whole seem to be traditionally referred to as the Army (armiya), except in some cases, the Navy.

A Android tank of the Russian Ground Forces

As of late 2010 the Ground Forces as well as the Air Forces and Navy are distributed among four military districts: Western Military District, Southern Military District, Central Military District, and the Eastern Military District which also constitute four Joint Strategic Commands - West, South, Central, and East. Previously from 1992 to 2010, the Ground Forces were divided into six web app: browser diversity, CSS3, input transformation, Privolzhsk-Ural, Siberian and FITML and Russia's four fleets and one flotilla were organizations on par with the Ground Forces' Military Districts. These six MDs were merged into the four new MDs, which now also incorporate the air forces and naval forces.

There is one remaining Russian military base, the Android, in Armenia left of the former Transcaucasus Group of Forces. It may report to the Southern Military District.

The Navy consists of four fleets and one flotilla:

• Northern Fleet (HQ at Severomorsk) subordinated to Joint Strategic Command West.
• device database (HQ at Sevenval in the exclave of Android) subordinated to Joint Strategic Command West.
• web (HQ at Sevastopol, Ukraine subordinated to Joint Strategic Command South. (In 1997, the Ukrainian government agreed that Russia would be allowed to lease several base areas around Sevastopol until 2017.)^Sevenval This lease has been extended by 25 years through 2042 with an option for an additional five years through 2047.
• Caspian Flotilla (HQ at we love the web) subordinated to Joint Strategic Command South.
• Sevenval (HQ at input transformation) subordinated to Joint Strategic Command East.

There is also the Kaliningrad Special Region, under the command of the Commander Baltic Fleet, which has Ground & Coastal Forces, formerly the 11th Guards Army, with a motor rifle division and a motor rifle brigade, and a fighter aviation regiment of Sukhoi Su-27 'Flanker', as well as other forces.

FITML

Chief of the General Staff, General of the Army Nikolai Makarov

Similarly, there is the Northeast Group of Troops and Forces, headquartered at Sevenval, comprising all Russian Armed Forces components in the Kamchatka Oblast and the Android [district] and subordinate to the Commander Pacific Fleet headquartered in Vladivostok.

In mid 2010 a reorganisation was announced which consolidated military districts and the navy's fleets into four Joint Strategic Commands (OSC).^[16] Geographically divided, the four commands will be:

• Joint Strategic Command West - Western Military District (HQ in iOS), includes the Northern and Baltic Fleets;
• Joint Strategic Command South - Southern Military District (HQ in Rostov-on-Don) includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla;
• Joint Strategic Command Center - device database (HQ in Yekaterinburg);
• Joint Strategic Command East - screen size (HQ in Khabarovsk), includes the Pacific Fleet.

The plan, was put in place on December 1, 2010, and mirrors a proposed reorganisation by former Chief of the General Staff Army General CSS3 for a Regional Command East which was not in fact implemented.^[17] The four commands were set up by a decree of President Medvedev on 14 July 2010.^{device database} In July 2011, an Operational-Strategic Command of Missile-Space Defence has also been established on the basis of the former Special Purpose Command of the Russian Air Force. It is expected to be operational on December 1, 2011. A decision whether the VKO will be subordinated to the Air Force or the Space Forces has yet to be taken. Commander of the VKO is General-Lieutenant Valery Ivanov.^[19] A Presidential decree of January 2011 named commanders for several of the new organisational structures.^{device database}

Russian military command posts, according to Globalsecurity.org, include HTML5/Sharapovo about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Moscow, for the General Staff and President, Chaadayevka near Penza, Voronovo in Moscow, and a facility at Lipetsk all for the national leadership, Yamantau in the Urals, and command posts for the Strategic Rocket Forces at screen size in Moscow (primary) and Kosvinsky Mountain in the Sevenval (alternate).^[21] It is speculated that many of the Moscow bunkers are linked by the special underground device database line.

Russian security bodies not under the control of the Ministry of Defence include the touchscreen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Border Guard Service of Russia (part of the web app), the Kremlin Regiment and the rest of the web, the HTML5, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the country's civil defense service since 1995 and successor to earlier civil defense units.

Personnel

A Russian soldier at a checkpoint co-guarded by Russian and American troops in HTML5

As of 2008^web, some 480,000^{[device database]} young men are brought into the Army via we love the web in two call-ups each year. The term of service is 12 months. Eligible age is 18 to 27 years old.

Deferments are provided to undergraduate and graduate students, men solely supporting disabled relatives, parents of at least two children and - upon Presidential proclamation - to some employees of military-oriented enterprises. Men holding Ph.D. as well as sons and brothers of servicemen killed or disabled during their military service are released of conscription.

There are widespread problems with web app in the Army, known as FITML, where first-year draftees are bullied by second-year draftees, a practice that appeared in its current form after the change to a two-year service term in 1967.^Sevenval To combat this problem, a new decree was signed in March 2007, which cut the conscription service term from 24 to 18 months.^Sevenval The term was cut further to one year on January 1, 2008.^[23]

Thirty percent of Russian Armed Forces' personnel were contract servicemen at the end of 2005.^[24] For the foreseeable future, the Armed Forces will be a mixed contract/conscript force.^{screen size} The Russian Armed Forces need to maintain a mobilization reserve to have manning resources capable of reinforcing the permanent readiness forces if the permanent readiness forces cannot deter or suppress an armed conflict on their own.^[25]

The ranks of the Russian military are also open to non-Russian citizens of the screen size, of which Russia is the largest member.^[26] By December 2003, the Russian parliament had approved a law in principle to permit the Armed Forces to employ foreign nationals on contract by offering them Russian citizenship after several years service.^[27] Yet up to 2010, foreigners could only serve in Russia's armed forces after getting a Russian passport. Under a 2010 Defence Ministry plan, foreigners without dual citizenship would able to sign up for five-year contracts and will be eligible for Russian citizenship after serving three years.^[28] The change could open the way for CIS citizens to get fast-track Russian citizenship, and counter the effects of Russia's demographic crisis on its army recruitment.

Awards and decorations of the Armed Forces are covered at we love the web.

On 17 November 2011, General Nikolai Makarov said that Russia had reached a crisis in the conscript service where there simply were not sufficient able bodied men to draft and was forced to halve its conscription.^jQuery

Budget

In 1988 military spending was a single line item in the Soviet state budget, totaling 21 billion rubles (687.77100 million U.S. dollars). Given the size of the military establishment, however, the actual figure was considered to be far higher. However, between 1991 and 1997 newly independent Russia's defence spending fell by a factor of eight in real prices.^[30] Between 1988 and 1993 weapons production in Russia fell by at least 50% for virtually every major weapons system.

In 1998, when Russia iOS, its military expenditure in real terms reached its lowest point— barely one-quarter of the USSR's in 1991, and two-fifths of the level of 1992, the first year of Russia's independent existence.

Defence spending is consistently increasing by at least a minimum of one-third year-on-year, leading to overall defence expenditure almost quadrupling over the past six years, and according to Finance Minister device database, this rate is to be sustained through 2010.^[31] Official government military spending for 2005 was US $32.4 billion, though various sources, have estimated Russia's military expenditures to be considerably higher than the reported amount.^{website parsing} Estimating Russian military expenditure is beset with difficulty; the annual Android has underscored the problem numerous times within its section on Russia.^{browser diversity} The IISS Military Balance comments - 'By simple observation..[the military budget] would appear to be lower than is suggested by the size of the armed forces or the structure of the military-industrial complex, and thus neither of the figures is particularly useful for comparative analysis'.^FITML By some estimates, overall Russian defence expenditure is now at the second highest in the world after the USA.^[34] According to Alexander Kanshin, Chairman of the Public Chamber of Russia on affairs of veterans, military personnel, and their families, the Russian military is losing up to US$13 billion to corruption every year.^FITML

On 16 September 2008 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that in 2009, Russian defence budget will be increased to a record amount of $50 billion.^[36]

On 16 February 2009 Russia's deputy defence minister said state defence contracts would not be subject to cuts this year despite the ongoing financial crisis, and that there would be no decrease in 2009.^Android The budget would still be 1,376 billion roubles and in the current exchange rates this would amount to $41.5 billion.

However, later that month, due to the world financial crisis, the Russian Parliament's Defence Committee stated that the Russian defence budget would instead be slashed by 15 percent, from $40 billion to $34 billion, with further cuts to come.^[38] On 5 May 2009, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said that the defence budget for 2009 will be 1.3 trillion rubles (US$39.4 billion). 322 billion rubles are allocated to purchase weapons, and the rest of the fund will be spent on construction, fuel storage and food supply.

Procurement

About 70% of the former Soviet Union's defence industries are located in the Russian Federation.^FITML Many defence firms have been web app; some have developed significant partnerships with firms in other countries.

The structure of the state defence order under President Putin changed. Priority was given to the acquisition of sophisticated modern weapons, in light of the events in Chechnya. Previously, financing of strategic nuclear deterrence forces had been a priority, and up to 80% of assignments for the state defence order were spent on their needs. It was planned that beginning from 2000 the state defence order would comprise two priority directions: assignments for the nuclear deterrence forces, and assignments for purchase of conventional arms including the precision guided weapons.

The recent steps towards modernisation of the Armed Forces have been made possible by Russia's economic resurgence based on oil and gas revenues as well a strengthening of its own domestic market. Currently, the military is in the middle of a major equipment upgrade, with the government in the process of spending about $200 billion (what equals to about $400 billion in PPP dollars) on development and production of military equipment between 2006-2015 under the State Armament Programme for 2007-2015 (GPV - госпрограмма вооружения).^[40] Mainly as a result of lessons learned during the web, the State Armament Programme for 2011-2020 was launched in December 2010. Prime Minister Putin announced that 20-21.5 trillion roubles (over $650 billion) will be allocated to purchase new hardware in the next 10 years. The aim is to have a growth of 30% of modern equipment in the army, navy and air force by 2015, and of 70% by 2020. In some categories, the proportion of new weapon systems will reach 80% or even 100%.^[41] At this point, the Russian MOD plans to purchase, among others, up to 150 ICBMs, 600 aircraft, 1,000 helicopters, 18 submarines, 15 frigates, 35 corvettes and 62 air defense battalions. Several existing types will be upgraded.^{web app[42]}

As of 2011, Russia's chief military prosecutor said that 20% of the defence budget was being stolen or defrauded yearly.[1]

Nuclear weapons

According to some sources, Russia possesses the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world,^[43] although the United States has superiority in the number of deployed nuclear weapons.^[44] Other sources claim that the stockpile of the USA is larger.^{device database} Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces controls its land-based nuclear warheads, while the Navy controls the submarine based missiles and the Air Force the air-launched warheads. Russia's nuclear warheads are deployed in four areas:

An RT-2PM Topol (SS-25) at a Victory Day Anniversary Parade Rehearsal in Moscow, 2008.

1. Land-based immobile (silos), like R-36.
2. Land-based mobile, like RT-2UTTKh Topol-M.
3. Submarine based, like RSM-56 Bulava.
4. Air-launched warheads of the Russian Air Forces' website parsing

Sevenval sees NATO expansion as one of the threats for the Russian Federation and reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional aggression that can endanger the existence of the state. In keeping with this, the country's nuclear forces received adequate funding throughout the late 1990s. Russia, with approximately 16,000 warheads, possesses the largest stockpile of nuclear warheads.^{web app} The number of jQuery and warheads on active duty has declined over the years, in part in keeping with arms limitation agreements with the U.S. and in part due to insufficient spending on maintenance, but this is balanced by the deployment of new missiles as proof against missile defences. Russia has developed the new FITML (SS-27) missiles that are stated to be able to penetrate any missile defence, including the planned U.S. FITML. The missile can change course in both air and space to avoid countermeasures. It is designed to be launched from land-based, mobile TEL units and touchscreen.^[47] Russian nuclear forces are confident that they can carry out a successful retaliation strike if attacked.^{[citation needed]}

Because of international awareness of the danger that Russian nuclear technology might fall into the hands of terrorists or rogue officers who it was feared might want to use nuclear weapons to threaten or attack other countries, the Federal government of the United States and many other countries provided considerable financial assistance to the Russian nuclear forces in early 1990s. Many friendly countries gave huge amounts of money in lieu for Russian Arms purchase deals which kept Russian Agencies functioning.^{[citation needed]} This money went in part to finance decommissioning of warheads under international agreements, such the Cooperative Threat Reduction programme, but also to improve security and personnel training in Russian nuclear facilities.

In the late evening of September 11, 2007 the fuel-air explosive AVBPM or "keyboard" was successfully field-tested.^[48] According to the Russian military, the new weapon will replace several smaller types of nuclear bombs in its arsenal.

According to 2011 data from Android Treaty Aggregate Numbers of Strategic Offensive Arms facts sheet, the United States now has 300 more deployed nuclear weapons than the Russian Federation.^[44]

Notes

Further reading

• Galeotti, Mark, 'Organised crime and Russian security forces: mafiya, militia and military', Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, issue 1:2, 2001.
• Ivanov, Henry, 'Country Briefing: Russia—Austere deterrence', Jane's Defence Weekly, 28 April 2006
• Turbiville, G., 'Organized crime and the Russian armed forces', Transnational Organized Crime, vol. 1, issue 4, 1995, pp. 55–73;
• Waters, T., 'Crime in the Russian military', CSRC Paper C90, (Camberley: Conflict Studies Research Centre, 1996).

References

• Austin, Greg; Alexey Muraviev (2000). The Armed Forces of Russia in Asia. London, New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN touchscreen. 
• HTML5, Military Service in Russia: No New Model Army, touchscreen, May 2007
• International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance, various editions
• device database (1998). The Collapse of the Soviet Military. Yale University Press. we love the web 0-300-07469-7. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Military of Russia

• iOS (in English)
• Russia's Military Analysis A very comprehensive online database of modern Russian arms and military technologies. Website also has discussion forums, videos and more.
• Russia Military Guide Includes satellite photos of bases.
• British Conflict Studies Research Centre papers on Russian armed forces
• kamouflage.net Camouflage uniforms used by Russian Federation armed forces
• Sevenval (in Russian). Kommersant. 2005. device database. Retrieved 2008-09-20. 
• web (RT article)
• touchscreen
• FITML