Russia has accelerated the output of some military hardware by more than tenfold to provide its army in Ukraine, especially boosting the production of missiles, drones, combat vehicles, and artillery, the Russian biggest weapons producer said on Tuesday.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, has ordered production to be increased to ensure Russia acquires the purposes of what he calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine despite the West providing Kyiv with weapons worth billions of dollars and levying unprecedented Western sanctions on the economy of Russia.
Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the armament complex at Rostec, the Russian state corporation that contains broadly of the weapons industry, said outcome volumes for different sorts of weapons had grown between two and 10 times.
And for some kinds of hardware, production had been increased “by tens of times,” said Ozdoev. “We are going forward at cruising speed, smoke from all the pipes,” he said.
Ozdoev said there had been a considerable increase in the production of tanks, armored vehicles, rocket launchers, artillery, the Iskander short-range ballistic missile, the Pantsir medium-range surface-to-air missile system, and the hypersonic Kinzhal missile.
He did not describe the whole volume of weapons produced.
Rostec, which is sanctioned by the West, is led by Sergei Chemezov, a close Putin backer. It contains 800 Russian civilian and defense entities and is by far Russia’s largest arms producer.
The US Treasury calls Rostec “the cornerstone of Russian defense, industrial, technology, and manufacturing sectors.”
