Is Russia's Outdated Military-Industrial Complex About To Change?

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (C) speaks with Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov (l.) and Defense Minister Anatoly Serduk (r.) at the presidential residence at Gorki outside Moscow July 12. Medvedev urged the Russian military on Tuesday to buy weapons from abroad in order to ensure its forces are properly armed, highlighting mounting concern over a decrepit industry. Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Reuters

Medvedev Takes On Russia's Outdated Military-Industrial Complex -- Christian Science Monitor

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that the Defense Ministry should open its contracts to bidding by foreign firms if Russian products didn't fit the bill.

Russia's ambitious $730-billion rearmament program appears to be stalling amid skyrocketing prices, late deliveries and, in some cases, the sheer inability of Russia's military industries to deliver the goods.

Experts say the increasingly frustrated tone of public statements by Russian leaders, including President Dmitry Medvedev, suggests that they are only now fully realizing that the once-mighty Soviet military-industrial complex, which produced everything from bullets to intercontinental missiles, is irreparably shattered.

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My Comment: I wish him luck, because of all of the institutions in Russia, the military is one of the hardest to change.