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Russia Plans Modernization of Armed Forces
Moscow, March 23 (KCNA) -- Anatoly Serzhukov, Russian minister of Defense, talked about the country's plan to modernize the armed forces at a meeting on March 18.

It is a main task of the army units to improve the combat capability from a strategic perspective at present, he said, clarifying a plan to raise the modernization level of the military technical equipment of the federal armed forces up to 30 percent in the five years ahead.

The aerospace defense force will be organized in 2011, he added.

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