More than $12.8 billion has been allocated for funding our programs for the creation of new types of weapons the year (the entire military budget amounts to $19 billion).

According to sources fro Rosvooruzheniye, a military related consortium, the present high-priority strategic programs include: "Topol-M2 mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles (an upgraded version of the SS-25 missile, which was put into mass production at the end of last yea a new tactical nuclear arms system capable under combat conditions of firing nuclei warheads over a distance of 400 kilometers (the system was tested successfully at the end of 1995); ultra-small nuclear warheads weighing less than 90 kilograms, which a already being manufactured; seven Borey-class submarines armed with the D-31 new ballistic missiles.

In addition, Russia's military laboratories are developing laser and radio-frequency weapons.