Russia will concentrate on a State Arms Program

Russia will concentrate on a State Arms Program to be carried out by 2015. One of the program's priorities is to equip the armed forces with high accuracy weapons.
At first glance, it seems that the plans and legislative initiatives fully correspond with military-technical achievements. The latter include the development of the non-nuclear tactical Iskander missile (NATO reporting name SS-26) for the ground troops.
Last June, Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces General of the Army Alexander Maslov said that under the Arms Program until 2015 the missile and artillery forces will receive five missile brigades, each equipped with the Iskander-M missiles (NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone).
Defense Ministry planners have now made the unmistakable conclusion about the need to reduce the range or the quantity of military hardware. I have strong doubts that the reduction will affect the range - modern Russian arms have been reliably hidden into the golden cage of export contracts. T-90 tanks in the Russian armed forces can be counted on the fingers of one hand. But 310 of these tanks have already been produced for India, and there are contractual commitments to supply it with another 347. The Iskander system is no exception. It has long been popular in the Middle East.
If the situation remains the same, our tanks will leave our tank-training grounds, and our surface aircraft will land on foreign ships. But the effectiveness of our own program of rearmament will be close to zero.
reff. taken from :Andrei Kislyakov (The Moscow News)