MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia is undergoing a multibillion-dollar state program to upgrade its arsenal up to 70 percent by 2020.
"Taking into account deliveries in the first half of 2016, the material status of troops with modern armaments increased by 0.7 percent and now stands at about 48 percent," Anatoly Gulyaev, head of the Armaments Department, said at the unified military goods commissioning day.