Perestroika and Change in Soviet Weapons ... - The Black Vault

VI. IMPLEMENTING CONVERSION ................ 40
The Special Advantages of Defense Industry ........ 40
Defense Production Inefficiency ................. 41
Defense Industry Prospects in Civilian Production .... 45
VII.
CONSEQUENCES OF CONVERSION FOR
CIVILIAN PRODUCTION ................. 56
The Conversion Campaign .................... 56
Conversion and the Economy ................... 56
The Returns from Conversion .................. 58
VIII. SOVIET DEFENSE BUDGETS .................. 60
The Recent Birth of the Defense Budget ...........
The Financial Budget Process ..................
60
60
Central Budget Review ....................... 63
Weapon Prices, Budgets, and Khozraschet: Additional
Budgetary Pressures ....................... 64
IX.
THE IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
AND COMPLEXITY ..................... 67
The Declining Effectiveness of the Buyer's Market .... 67
The Age of the "Weapon System" ................. 67
Deficiencies in the Soviet Military R&D Approach .... 68
Trouble for Soviet Weapons ................... 70
X. SOVIET WEAPONS ACQUISITION UNDER
POLITICAL REFORM AND TECHNOLOGICAL
REVOLUTION ......................... 78
Resource Allocation ......................... 78
Implementation Priority ...................... 80
Buyer's Market ............................ 81
R&D Style ............................... 82
Conclusions ............................... 83
Appendix: THE COST OF SOVIET WEAPONS ............ 85