Russia's dwindling forces (Agencies) Updated: 2004-02-19 09:42
Fact file
WWII (1940-45) Defense spending as part of total
budget: rose from 32.8 to 47.6 per cent during course of war
Personnel: rose from 2.9 to 11.3 million
Nuclear warheads: not applicable
Tanks: number rose from 4,500 to 12,000 in 1945
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Defense spending as part of total
budget: 20.9 per cent Personnel: 3.6 million
Nuclear warheads: 3,322 Tanks:
35,000
Height of Cold War (1980) Defense spending as part of total
budget: 16.6 per cent Personnel: 3.6 million
Nuclear warheads: 30,062 Tanks:
50,000
Fall of Soviet Union (1991) Defense spending as part of total
budget: 13.9 per cent Personnel: 3.4 million
Nuclear warheads: 37,000 Tanks:
63,900
Present Defense spending as part of total
budget: 20 per cent (less than $10 billion), although military is not
likely to receive all payments from cash-strapped Kremlin
Personnel: 1.2 million Nuclear
warheads: 6,000 to 15,000 (depending on dismantling schedule)
Tanks: unavailable
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