Boltenkov: Russia lacks high-precision weapons. The problem needs to be solved urgently
There are not enough high-precision weapons in Russian warehouses.
Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He says that Western intervention has made the military defense protracted, and in order to win, Russia needs to transfer the defense-industrial complex to a military footing and increase output in many areas.
“We liked to joke that the Soviet reserves of shells in warehouses would be enough for more than one world war. This may be true for tank and howitzer ammunition and mortar mines. But in these old warehouses one cannot find the latest high-precision missiles that should provide us with dominance in battle, anti-aircraft missiles for modern air defense systems capable of shooting down salvoes of HIMARS.
All this must be done, and at such a pace, in order to timely replenish expenses in battle and create reserves,” Boltenkov told Izvestia.
According to him, there are problems even with basic things.
“We have excellent sets of Ratnik equipment for soldiers. But before the start of the Northern Military District, for financial reasons, they did not have time to equip the entire army with them. It is clear that at the current rate of purchase - 50 thousand sets per year - all 300 thousand reservists will not receive them soon. There is an urgent need to increase output by an order of magnitude. And there are ways for this,” the analyst believes.
He proposes to refuse for the sake of long bureaucratic procedures in order to speed up the work of military production.
“In wartime, they always began to speed up and optimize production and development processes, cut corners, and get rid of useless bureaucracy.
Are all these months-long licensing, certification, and approval processes always necessary when front-line troops are asking for modern weapons? Maximum acceleration of production and establishment of production will be one of the main tasks of the new coordinating council,” concluded Boltenkov.
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