VORONEZH. Oct 18 (Interfax) - The prospective state armament program to 2025 will prioritize the creation of new weapons rather than upgrading the old ones, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said.
"Priorities are mainly given to not so much the modernization of past weapon models as the creation of new ones. These are prospective airborne systems, including military-transport and long-range-aviation ones, these are unmanned systems, robotic equipment, i.e. everything that is to do with being able and having to remove a human from the lethal area," Rogozin said.
"We are seeing a future in this and will place emphasis on this," he said.
This concerns everything: the aviation, the ground forces and the navy, he said. "The main thing is to create a control system and a system of unkillable communication," the deputy prime minister said.