Friday, June 28, 2013

Russia to Build 100 New Military Bases and Airfields

General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces
General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces


MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti) – About 100 new defense infrastructure facilities, including airfields and Army and Navy maintenance and supply bases, will be built in Russia to accommodate new weapon systems, a top military official said Thursday.
By 2016, 316 garrison towns are to be built, their number due to increase to 495 by 2020, said General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces, adding that more than 3,000 facilities, including barracks, parking lots, cafeterias, etc., would be built in those locations.

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