Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday the country will inject huge funds into state-of-the-art offensive and defensive arms.
"Most great powers heavily invest into the newest offensive and defensive systems. We should do the same," he told a ceremony of launching the Severodvinsk nuclear submarine in the dockyard of the Sevmash defence plant.
"Russia should simply effectively modernize its maritime forces and more actively build the most modern ships," Medvedev said.
He noted that "in the near future a single program for the development of the country's military and civil shipbuilding will be adopted."
