Serious business:military power of Russia and USA

Regardless of personal relationship to the military industry there is no denying the fact that today it is one of the fastest growing markets, where Russia is one of the major players. Despite a number of restrictions and sanctions, the long political game, we are all new buyers willing to sign multimillion-dollar contracts and to patiently await the delivery of our modern weapons.

Representatives of the authorities and of the Ministry of defense until the last conceal the true name of future customers. All customers are given a code number and access to contracts has a very limited list of entities. the Interested people can certainly reveal certain patterns, tracking of the source from the media who and where visits who receive special attention and who began to tie trade relations. By the end of the year the number of insiders and indirect evidence leads the logical outcome when the next meeting or report to the head of the country, the curtain falls and the entire international community receives information for reflection.

Advanced military development, intellectual property and the hidden war for human capital. For most countries acceptable to all the tools, for what would prove to be a step ahead of the competition. The question though is directly associated with the defense of the country, the budgetary costs are so high that mass production of the past and partly of the new generations, you must run the export series.

"The portfolio of orders" on arms produced in Russia in the first nine months of 2017, exceeded $ 45 billion. Exports its results will amount to 15.3 billion.

Our main competitor, as well increasing the number of deliveries. Using the imposed constraints, and the loyalty of many countries, taken a new record:

The United States exported weapons in the 2017 financial year (ending 30 September) at $41.9 billion reported by the Department of defense for defense cooperation and security. This is $8 billion more than in 2016.

How we have taken account of forward contracts and hidden supplies, a big question. However, the report of the Stockholm international Institute of problems of world SIPRI, released last year, helps enlarged to look at the world market in a long period:

The gap of the USA and Russia from other countries is striking. According to the data for the period from 2012 to 2016, the leaders of the rating of exported arms of the United States - by 47.2 billion, Russia — 33.2 billion.

India and Saudi Arabia have been leaders in the import of weapons. However, an increased interest is the analysis of the supply of arms to China, India and Pakistan. Increased competition and new trade relations have changed in the proportion of providers:

Our manufacturers have to make concessions to save the markets. Localization of production and long service contracts. Anything that does not have strategic advantages over time can begin is done in other countries. While such production is closer to the experimental ones, lacks competences, equipment and too complicated a production cycle. Even in our country it is necessary to use several dozens of manufacturers to realise the final product.

Underestimate new players really shouldn't. Do not have to come up with a new tank, to enter the market. Intelligent and precision-guided weapons, has long been a priority even here. According to the development strategy of the military-industrial complex, there should be a diversification of production. The army must be equipped with only modern examples, after a global update, which completes its cycle.

However, the trend of increasing armaments are quite obvious:

After a long decline that started in anticipation of the end of the cold war and the collapse of the Soviet Union, now planned for a long period of growth. The situation is really tense, but the growth of financial flows only confirms the artificiality of some of the events. Rosoboronexport continues to enter into contracts and conduct new negotiations, to promote our products in the market.

Rosoboronexport — the Russian state company, the only Russian state intermediary for export and import the entire spectrum of products, technologies and services of military and dual-purpose. Included in the rostec Corporation.

Working for a company that directly relates to this industry, I watched with interest and feasible contribute to the development of our direction. No doubt there are certain difficulties with access to technology and equipment some of the materials. However, there are always ways to exit the situation. Some of the import substitution program allowed us in particular to enter the market with new products, to long-term and future orders. Of course today is a very clumsy machine with a large number of structural and systemic problems. Despite the growth momentum a few years ago, not everyone can work in a competitive environment. Gradual decline in the share of public procurement will be a real test of strength for many companies.

It is a possible scenario that in a few years, most businesses will become industrial sites with centralized management and maintenance of non-core processes outsourced. Second chance for development, can serve as a private investment in the implementation of the program of public-private partnerships. To give the opportunity to optimize legacy business processes to the heads of big business an interesting prospect. Only concern in any of the options, the features of our mentality and our approach to doing business.

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