Russian Conventional Weapons Agency
The Russian Conventional Weapons Agency supervises the production of armor, artillery systems, missile systems, fire arms and munitions plus production optics, both for defense and for the national economy. It has a labor force of 334,000, and in the first 8 months of 1999 the sector increased employment by 2,800. Subordinate entities include 74 research institutes and design bureaus, 63 batch-producing enterprises. Some are quite famous ones like Izhmash, the Kirov Works, the famous LOMO and the instrument-making design bureau in Tula. The sector increased output in the first 8 months of 1999 by 42 percent, reduced wage arrears from 5 months in the beginning of the year to the present 2 months, improved payments into the budgets and off-budgetary funds. But purchases of armaments and equipment by the Russian army are declining while arms exports are soaring. In the second quarter of 1999 the sector exported 52 percent of its output. In the first 8 months of the 1999 it exported 84 percent of all the armaments and military equipment manufactured. The government owes the sector more than 5 billion rubles. Another 1.3 million are owed by the Defense Ministry and other government clients that have not claimed output ordered by them.
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