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Originally Posted by Bruno Lotse
I'm sure you know that joke about two Russkies tankmen in Paris and air-war.
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Hmm. That is very revealing - Russia plans to 'up' its military spending to $23 Billion/yr. That is a far cry from even China's expenditures. What the hell can $23 Billion buy you to compete with any western nation?
In case anyone cares, the US spends about $411 Billion last I checked per year on its military.
Russia spends less than 5% of the US on its military.
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To be fair, according to the article it is $23 billion/year on new hardware - that is, this is only the procurement budget, not counting the personnel budget or the training budget which takes up a huge chunk of most militaries fees.
Of course, we don't know how much of this $23 billion has to be invested onto things like rebuilding the production lines, or whether it is all meant just for buying and the money for the production lines is in another budget.
Even if only $23 billion actually makes it to real equipment, that's still a lot. That's like 6 or so carriers, or over 100 fighters as expensive as a F-22...