Deputy Prime Minister of Russia assessed  impact of  wars in Karabakh  and Syria on  state armaments program

ArmInfo.One of the main trends that will be reflected in the state armaments program until 2033 will be the use of unmanned vehicles in military conflicts. 

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov spoke about this in an interview  with RBC. He stressed that the planning of the state program begins  almost three years before its adoption, because "it is necessary to  take into account a lot of factors and realize all the trends in  scientific and technological development in this industry." "As for  the trends, look at how the nature of military conflicts with the use  of unmanned vehicles has changed.  This is already a stable trend.  First, these are reconnaissance weapons, today they are also strike  weapons.  Karabakh has shown how they work," Borisov said.

The new state armaments program (will be adopted in 2023 and will  cover the period 2024-2033. The state program, the approval of which  Vladimir Putin announced in January 2018, involves the modernization  of weapons and military equipment for 19 trillion rubles. and the  construction of new infrastructure for 1 trillion rubles. These funds  will be used, among other things, for work on the S-500 anti-aircraft  missile system, the <Sarmat> and <Rubezh <intercontinental ballistic  missiles, and the replacement of the <Topol> complexes with the more  modern <Yarsy> systems. It is also planned to adopt the fifth  generation Su-57 fighters (also known as PAK FA and T-50) and MiG-35,  modernize strategic bombers Tu-95MS, Tu-160M and Tu-22M3, as well as  work on a promising long-range complex aviation (PAK DA)