Tuesday, February 21, 2012

"Putin pledges biggest military buildup since cold war"

By Fred Weir

"Over the next decade, Putin writes, $772 billion to be spent on 400 new intercontinental ballistic missiles, 2,300 late-generation tanks, 600 modern combat aircraft - including at least 100 military-purpose space planes - eight nuclear ballistic missile submarines, 50 surface warships as well as a whole new inventory of artillery, air defense systems, and about 17,000 new military vehicles."

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