MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator...

The meeting focused on the delivery of state of the art automated troop-control systems.

Telecommunications and automated control systems remain a weak spot in the Russian Armed Forces, which still rely on obsolete Soviet-era systems. In 2000, the Voronezh-based Sozvezdiye Company became the lead contractor in the development of new tactical-level control systems.

Although military units have already received the first systems, some sources claim they are unreliable and difficult to operate. However, these initial drawbacks may be eliminated in the future.

The current financing for new-systems purchases makes it impossible to re-equip more than one brigade a year out of the 80-plus operational Army brigades. This is unacceptable.

It is hard to overestimate the role played by modern electronic systems in combat operations, especially today when virtually all industrialized nations, including Russia, are working hard to develop network based warfare, now

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