Russia Ends Large-Scale Rearmament Era

ICBM Yars
The solid-fueled road-mobile ICBM Yars, pictured being lofted from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, is capable of launching multiple warheads.
Credit: Russian Defense Ministry
After a decade of large-scale rearmament, Russia’s defense expenditures will remain static for the next few years while the country’s armed forces switch to pinpoint purchases of new weapons. Moscow’s main priorities likely will be further enhancement of nuclear capabilities as well as the...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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