Medvedev is going hard on over priced Russian weaponry-
Medvedev tells Defense Ministry to shop abroad for cheaper weapons | Defense | RIA Novosti
Medvedev tells Defense Ministry to shop abroad for cheaper weapons | Defense | RIA Novosti
according to the report the ministry was okay with profit % of up to 25, shouldn't that recover all the money lost to the bad state of equipment.Yes. But the other side of the story is that many industries in Russia are struggling as is, and need the money. While the weapon systems are often over priced, this is because the plants are in bad shape, and need the money for things like maintenance, and equipment upgrades, as well as to cover previous losses. The result is that while the price of the equipment is over-stated, the factories can't do it for less.
Are these units fully equiped? What type of order of battle the russian forces use now. Do Russian military uses helicopter like the US military. During the Georgia conflict I seen some good and bad with the Russian military.A few comments: the NBC forces (РХБЗ in Russian) refers to NBC clean-up troops, that do things like decontamination of areas hit by NBC weapons. They also include a number of additional units such as the flamethrower units (typically using RPO-Shmel flamethrowers).
The Command and Control Brigades are usually the command element of an Army, or of a Military District. This might be why there are 3 in each (1 for each Army, one for the MD).
The Military Bases each contain the equivalent of a single Motor-Rifles Brigade, plus additional units including SAMs, Aircraft, etc.
The AA Missile Brigades refer to the anti-air units of the Land Forces. They operate mainly the Buk and Buk-M systems, along with some S-300V. The regular S-300P, S-300PM, and S-400 are currently employed by the air force, which has its own units of SAMs. They aren't listed here.
The Artillery Brigades seem to lack any standard make up some of them containing as many as 50+ Howitzers, others as few 18, in addition to varying numbers of medium range MLRS (BM-27 Uragan) and anti tank systems (self-propelled ATGM units Shturm-S, and towed anti-tank guns MT-12 Rapira). Some consist entirely of 12 long range MLRS systems (BM-30 Smerch).
The Missile Brigades typically consist of 12 Tochka or Tochka-U units. One of the ones in West MD has Iskander-M instead of Tochka.