{"id":14466,"date":"2019-02-04T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=14466"},"modified":"2019-02-04T08:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:41:16","slug":"in-2016-russian-defense-ministry-spent-371-million-to-start-a-new-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/in-2016-russian-defense-ministry-spent-371-million-to-start-a-new-arms-race\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2016, Russian Defense Ministry spent $371 million to start a new arms race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 2, 2019,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary\/remarks\/2019\/02\/288722.htm\">the US Department of State announced<\/a>\u00a0that the United States had suspended its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Forces (INF) Treaty as a consequence of the breach of the Treaty by the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p>As stated in the statement, the United States can no longer be restricted by the Treaty while Russia openly violates it.\u00a0The United States announced the possibility of such a decision on December 4, 2018, warning that unless Russia returned to full compliance in 60 days, the United States would withdraw from the INF Treaty. If Russia does not return to full and verifiable compliance with the Treaty by eliminating all noncompliant 9M729 (or SSC -8)missiles, their launchers, and associated equipment in the six-month period, the Treaty will terminate.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/hacked-classified-data-of-russian-state-defense-procurement-2015-2016\/\">information<\/a> regarding the Russian state defense procurement in 2015-2016 that was exclusively provided to InformNapalm for analysis and publication by Ukrainian Cyber Alliance in November 2016, we assume that it is possible that the Russians began production of the noncompliant 9M729 missiles back in 2016, according to the contract with Novator Design Bureau in the amount of 24,297,924,952 rubles ($371 million at a current exchange rate).<\/p>\n<p>On September 18, 2017, at the Kapustin Yar test site during Zapad-2017 military exercise, a 9M729 missile was launched at a maximum range.\u00a0The rocket flew 480 km.<\/p>\n<p>The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed on December 7, 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.\u00a0This treaty banned the production and testing of ground-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,000 km.<\/p>\n<p><em>See also:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/46294-departament-mo-rf-po-goszakazam-top-200\/\"><em>Secrets of Russian Defense Ministry Department of Procurement: Top 200 most expensive contracts in 2018<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia is starting a new cycle of the arms race that will eventually bring its own end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8997 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Exclusively for InformNapalm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Translated by Svitlana Kemblowski<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u00a0(<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons \u2014 Attribution 4.0 International \u2014 CC BY 4.0<\/a><em>)<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Repost and share with friends.<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>For notifications about InformNapalm investigations follow us on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/informnapalm24\/\">Facebook<\/a><em>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InformNapalm\">Twitter<\/a><em>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/informnapalm\">Telegram<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/header2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13389\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/header2.jpg 642w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/header2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/header2-500x261.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 2, 2019,\u00a0the US Department of State announced\u00a0that the United States had suspended its obligations under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":14467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[528,532],"tags":[682,352,5888],"class_list":["post-14466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-russian-defense-ministry","tag-russian-weapons","tag-treaty"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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If Russia does not return to full and verifiable compliance with the Treaty by eliminating all noncompliant 9M729 (or SSC -8)missiles, their launchers, and associated equipment in the six-month period, the Treaty will terminate.\r\n\r\nBased on the <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/hacked-classified-data-of-russian-state-defense-procurement-2015-2016\/\">information<\/a> regarding the Russian state defense procurement in 2015-2016 that was exclusively provided to InformNapalm for analysis and publication by Ukrainian Cyber Alliance in November 2016, we assume that it is possible that the Russians began production of the noncompliant 9M729 missiles back in 2016, according to the contract with Novator Design Bureau in the amount of 24,297,924,952 rubles ($371 million at a current exchange rate).\r\n\r\nOn September 18, 2017, at the Kapustin Yar test site during Zapad-2017 military exercise, a 9M729 missile was launched at a maximum range.\u00a0The rocket flew 480 km.\r\n\r\nThe Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed on December 7, 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.\u00a0This treaty banned the production and testing of ground-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,000 km.\r\n\r\n<em>See also:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/46294-departament-mo-rf-po-goszakazam-top-200\/\"><em>Secrets of Russian Defense Ministry Department of Procurement: Top 200 most expensive contracts in 2018<\/em><\/a>\r\n\r\nRussia is starting a new cycle of the arms race that will eventually bring its own end.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-8997 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Exclusively for InformNapalm.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Translated by Svitlana Kemblowski<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\r\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u00a0(<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons \u2014 Attribution 4.0 International \u2014 CC BY 4.0<\/a><em>)<\/em><\/h5>\r\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Repost and share with friends.<\/em><\/strong><em>\r\n<\/em><em>For notifications about InformNapalm investigations follow us on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/informnapalm24\/\">Facebook<\/a><em>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InformNapalm\">Twitter<\/a><em>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/informnapalm\">Telegram<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/h5>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/header2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13389\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14468,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions\/14468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}