[Killy]

I think some of us might be missing the point here. Admiral Zaarin is right about certain things, with a couple of notations. Increasing the production of weapons is one thing, but it's not going to render any revenue unless you're selling it to a third party. This is how the weapons industry works. You invest a certain amount of money into increasing your stockpile of weapons (nukes excluded, since they're not sold the same way firearms are, I hope...) and then you sell parts of that stockpile to a third-world country or any other soon-to-be dictatorship that needs to be overthrown. Revenue generated.

This has been the case with Russian arms for quite some time - American too. Look at most of the NATO-countries - they have adopted weapons and military vehicles that are manufactured in the US, by US companies. *cough* Norway for instance, who just recently
chose the JSF over the Gripen.

More to the point - the fact that Russia is going to use the process of increasing their arms production as a cloak to say that they're about to man up for a 'potential threat', when in fact they're just generating more income is a perfect example of how to make money and become politically stronger without actually firing a single round.

It's just politics and psychology, I guess.