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Russia spends over billion dollars monthly on missile and drone production – Forbes

Monday, 23 September 2024, 19:11
Russia spends over billion dollars monthly on missile and drone production – Forbes
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Russia spends US$1.1 billion on missiles and US$100 million on drones every month.

Source: Forbes Ukraine

Details: A source of Forbes in Ukraine’s intelligence services says that the average rate of production in Russia is 132-171 missiles per month.

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Russia spends the largest amount of money, US$585 million per month, on the production of Kh-101 cruise missiles, and US$228 million on the production of Kalibr missiles.

On average, Russia manufactures 45 and 35 missiles of these types per month respectively.

Every month new Iskander-K and Oniks missiles cost Russia US$38 and US$13 million respectively, and their quantity is small in comparison to other cruise missiles – 10-15 and up to 10 pieces per month respectively.

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Russia spends US$135 and US$60 million per month on the production of the Iskander-M and Kinzhal ballistic missiles. About 45 Iskanders and up to six Kinzhals are manufactured each month.

The Russian military machine spends about US$100 million on the Shahed-136 kamikaze drones and produces over 500 of the UAVs per month.

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