Vladimir Putin has largely transformed Russia’s military, depleted and demoralized after the Soviet breakup, as part of his goal to reassert Moscow on the world stage
REUTOV, Russia—When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, an elite military supplier once called Design Bureau No. 52, known for making intercontinental ballistic missiles, fell on hard times. Military spending had dropped so sharply that the company was forced to make civilian products such as railway timetable boards.
Its problems were typical of Russia’s depleted armed forces. Conscription had stopped in some places, desertions were on the rise and some officers were homeless as the government struggled to pay them. Military hardware was left to rust or was stripped for parts. Funding for new weapons design and technology was drained.
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