Kremlin Finalizes 2027–2036 Arms Plan Prioritizing Nuclear Triad Upgrades and Air Defense

Overview

• Officials say parameters for the 2027–2036 state armaments program are complete and awaiting presidential endorsement, with the document running for ten years and renewed every five.
• The plan emphasizes maintaining and modernizing the nuclear triad and building an all-encompassing air-defense architecture, while strengthening land forces and export potential.
• Kremlin materials outline broad adoption of advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, across strategic forces, space systems, air defense, communications, electronic warfare, and unmanned and robotic platforms.
• A core principle is synchronizing R&D, procurement, infrastructure build-out, and test-range expansion, linked to a parallel defense-sector development program as the implementation tool.
• At the same meeting, Putin cited large production gains since 2022, including a 22-fold rise in strike weapons and ammunition and increases across tanks, aircraft, armored vehicles, electronic warfare gear, and rocket artillery.